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Pumpkin Light

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This is a wonderful story of a budding artist whom loves pumpkins, of all things. The Halloween/Autumn season is filled with magic and scary imaginings and this story fills one's heart with love for family and how discipline can seem harsh in a child's imagination. So, in his dream that night, his imagination takes over and helps him resolve the issues he doesn't understand. In the morning, he rises to a family that still loves him and appreciates him, with the help of the morning light and a new day!

I personally met the author in NYC, where he shared these magnificent paintings with us. At that time, he was working in the very book store that sold this wonderful story. His nature is well portrayed in the relationships in this story.

One of my favorite stories for Autumn~ the children love this story too!!

This book attempts to paint a beautiful picture of a boy who loves Halloween. His name is Angus. Angus loves his pumpkin pie and to paint pictures of Halloween jack-o-lanterns on Halloween. So far so good. Warm and fuzzy.

One year Angus stays out too late painting pictures of jack-o-lanterns in the general store window and is punished by his parents -- no dinner, no hanging up of his paintings, and no pie. OK, not ideal, pretty harsh, but so far do-able.

Then we get to the Freddy Kruger part. The poor kid DREAMS that he is eating the pie anyway, and a mean and nasty scarecrow turns him into a dog. His parents think he has RUN AWAY FROM HOME, and they are sad, but, hey, here's a dog to keep us company! The poor dog can't even sleep with them in the house, he has to guard a magic pumpkin. Finally, after a YEAR of this, the dog convinces the mother (a la Lassie) to carve the magic pumpkin, which releases him.

Yeah, nice concept *not*. One transgression gets you 'disappeared' until somebody kills a pumpkin to let you out.

The editor of this book, who does not know proper grammar, should be fired.

I found this book awful, disturbing, scary, and the poor English sent me over the top. Do not buy this book, and warn your friends about the Freddie Kruger scarecrow.