All students are invited to celebrate great books by decorating pumpkins as storybook characters.

1. The book from which a storybook character is chosen should be an elementary school appropriate title.
2. Please avoid characters based on toys, trading cards, TV shows, or movies unless the book was published prior to the related toys, trading cards, TV shows,or movies.
3. The pumpkin must be smaller than the student’s head and should fit in a backpack. The entire display should fit on a paper plate.
4. The pumpkin can be painted, glued, pinned, or otherwise added to, but NOT carved. We would like to avoid the magic of decomposition in the library.
5. The student should provide 3 clues (sentences) about the identity of their character on a 4x6 card (or similar paper). On the back, they should write the character’s name, the book title, and their own name.
6. Pumpkins will be displayed in the display case outside the library and on top of the library shelves from October 15-31. Pumpkins can be dropped off at the library on any day during that window. On October 31, students can pick up their pumpkins or ask their friendly librarian to make them disappear.

There is no full-time pumpkin guard. Please do not attach treasured items to your pumpkin.