figurines & knick knacks
pumpkin people
p a wonderful story of the pumpkin people from the illustrator of how smudge came . constructed from cornstalks straw and of course pumpkins these folkloric figures appear all over town sauntering down the sidewalk sitting in a tree or cavorting on a lawn chair . by day they are art but by night ... thats a whole different story . sandra and ron lightburn have imagined the life of a pumpkin person after all the children are put to bed except of course two curious little kids and their cat . p sandra lightburn is a childrens writer who lives in the annapolis valley . her first book driftwood cove won the sheila a. egoff childrens literature prize for text and illustration . p ron lightburns career as a childrens book illustrator was launched with his governor generals award winning artwork for waiting for the whales . since then he has illustrated numerous other best selling picturebooks .