Sandra Horning graduated from Bryn Mawr College with a BA in Sociology and a minor in Russian. Horning's love of children's books began in school, flourished when she worked in the children's department of a bookstore, and took shape as a career when she lived in County Galway, Ireland. She lives with her husband, two sons, eight chickens, and three ducks in Chaplin, Connecticut Illustrator Holly Stone-Barker graduated with a BFA in communications design from Pratt Institute in New York. She works as a freelance illustrator and enjoys teaching. Stone-Barker's colorful illustrations are created with a variety of different papers that she finds in her travels. Some of her other titles with Pelican include Blue Frog: The Legend of Chocolate and The Little "Read" Hen. She lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with her husband and two children.
Sandra Horning's The Biggest Pumpkin receives fun drawings by Holly Stone-Barker and uses the experiences of one young gardener to explore the process of planting and caring for a growing vegetable. It blends nonfiction facts with fiction as it presents the learning process of young Gavin, who grows his own pumpkin with much community support. Good reading skills or parental read-aloud will lend to this engrossing tale.-- (12/01/2014)
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