Sylvie Ann and Ethlyn Corgi search for the
biggest pumpkin amongst the corn.
As she rounds the corn shocks she spies
the most impressive pumpkin! Sylvie says to Ethlyn, "This is
the biggest pumpkin but I don't think I can carry it."
Sylvie thinks perhaps she should ask Shepard or Seth for help to
carry the prize pumpkin down from the cornfield or perhaps she
could roll it down like Tasha Tudor's Sylvie Ann did...
Sylvie shows Ethlyn Corgi, Tasha Tudor's
book Pumpkin Moonshine. She tells Ethlyn
how in Tasha's book, Sylvie Ann went out to the cornfield to find
the largest, best pumpkin. In Pumpkin Moonshine,
Sylvie succeeds in getting her pumpkin out of the cornfield but
the pumpkin has multiple mishaps as it rolls uncontrollably down
the hill. Tasha's real niece, Sylvie Ann, was the model for the
Sylvie Ann in the book. Pumpkin Moonshine
was Tasha Tudor's first published book, published in 1938. 2008
marks the 70th anniversary of Tasha Tudor's Pumpkin
Moonshine. Amelia and her family join the Johnsons
in celebration of their friend Tasha's first published book!
Sarah looking for the best pumpkin in the
patch.
Tasha was delighted by this photograph that Diane took of her
daughter Sarah.
Sarah was Tasha's model for the illustrations in The
Real Pretend, as well as for other illustrations,
prints and cards.
Photographs by Diane Shepard Johnson
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