Pattan's Pumpkin: An Indian Flood Story

by Chitra Soundar

Book Overview

A vibrant variation on the traditional flood myth from the Irular tribe in Southern India. When Pattan finds a yellow-flower vine wilting in his valley, he replants and cares for it, watching as a pumpkin appears and grows taller than the goats, taller than the elephants, as tall as the very mountains. When a terrible storm rages across the valley, Pattan wonders if perhaps his pumpkin can save the seeds and grains and saplings, the goats and birds...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0763692743
• ISBN13: 9780763692742
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 3.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 9.6" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3