A Pumpkin for Peter

Autumn, and the Rabbit family are walking through the woods to find a pumpkin. The trees are bigger in October, the light is lower, and the younger sisters are finding all of it a little alarming — the shadows, the snap of twigs underfoot, the owl they heard somewhere overhead.

Peter is absolutely, definitively not scared. He says so several times.

Along the way they meet unexpected friends in the woods, and the pumpkin is found. Taylor's autumn palette — deep oranges, dark greens, the last warm light of an October afternoon — makes this the most visually striking book in the series. Halloween-adjacent without being frightening; good for the weeks before.