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Loading... Pumpkinhead (2003)by Eric Rohmann
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Caring parents raise their son who has a pumpkin for a head. Story begins by challenging readers with an adventure. Story tells challenges of having a pumpkin for a head but ends well. Similar to other fairy tales about unusual children. I didn't expect much from this book. After all, books called Pumpkinhead don't exactly scream literary gold, but I found this book at the same time as as The Cinder-Eyed Cats and I gave it a try. It was a simple story and I encourage anyone looking for a little light reading to give it a try. It certainly is an adventure story. It has the quest and the journey and even a brief moment of self-realization for the protagonist. Pumpkinhead is a story about a boy who is different from everyone else. Even though his is different his family still loves him very much. One day he has something terrible happen and his family thinks he is lost forever. In the end the boy finds out that because of his difference life may be more difficult for him, but he is ok with that. This story was about a little boy named Ortho, who had a pumpkin for a head. Ortho's pumpkin head was taken by a bat for his new home. The bat got tired and dropped his head in the ocean. Then, he was swallowed by a fish who later caught him up. Then, he was caught by a fisherman and put up for sale as a pumpkin fish. Surprisingly, his mother saw him at the fish market and bought him back and took him home. This story teaches children that unexpected and sometimes bad things can happen but things usually turn out to be okay if you don't give up. no reviews | add a review
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