Sam and the Great Pumpkin

By Donald Cooper

When Pops orders special giant-pumpkin seeds from the seed catalog, Sam gets the project of a lifetime: grow a LEGEND. With the help of his Garden Friends - Charly the praying mantis, Tina the pink spider, Zip the garden snake, Betty the ladybug, and Fred the muskrat - Sam plants the seeds in spring and tends the patch all summer long.

There's a drought to beat (and a Great Flood when the irrigation day goes hilariously wrong - Charly captains a leaf, Tina sails her web, and Fred and Zip turn rescuers ). There's a wagon scale to build, three giant pumpkins to name and measure, and a compost bin full of banana peels, eggshells, coffee grounds, grass clippings, earthworms - and one magic ingredient - that turns Sam's pumpkins into rocket-fueled giants.

Sam even learns the true story of the biggest pumpkin ever grown - Ron Wallace's world-record 3,156-pounder, the first pumpkin in history over 3,000 pounds - and sets his sights on the State Fair's Great Weigh-Off. And when the fair is over, Sam makes the decision that makes Goliath the champion more than any ribbon could: the great pumpkin goes to the Food Bank, to become pies and bread for families who need them.

A warm, funny, real-science adventure about growing, giving, and doing big things together - part of the Sam & the Garden Friends series (Sam's Haunted Barn Party, Sam's Christmas Barn Party), with 100% of the royalties going to the Nasale Saves Lives Initiative Children's Orphanage in Uganda.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HPCVZVH8
• ISBN13: 9798237571820
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Donald Cooper
• Length: 42 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"