{"product_id":"pumpkin-island-9781592702657","title":"Pumpkin Island","description":"Drawn from life, Arthur Geisert's \u003ci\u003ePumpkin Island\u003c\/i\u003e is the fantastical story of a real life town brought to a halt by a profusion of pumpkins.\u003cbr\u003e Elkader, Iowa, is the perfect picture of small town life--that is, until the pumpkins arrive. One pumpkin? Fine. Two pumpkins? Okay. But with pumpkins growing around every street corner, and over every building, what's a town to do? In these pages, Geisert imagines the town of Elkader overrun by the pumpkins that grow on Pumpkin Island, which sits in the Turkey River, right outside his kitchen window.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeisert, Arthur:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Award-winning children's book author Arthur Geisert has been creating etchings and hand-coloring them for picture books for over forty years. Geisert, who grew up in Los Angeles and learned to etch at the Otis Art Institute, has spent his entire adult life in the Midwest. He now lives on Main Street in Elkader, Iowa. Geisert's work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Horn Book Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e. It also has been collected by various museums and has been exhibited at The Art Institute of Chicago. In 2010, his book \u003ci\u003eIce\u003c\/i\u003e was selected as a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e best illustrated book, the third book on the list for Geisert. In recent years, he has published \u003ci\u003eThe Giant Seed\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThunderstorm\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePumpkin Island\u003c\/i\u003e, the first book in his trilogy about Clayton County, Iowa. \u003ci\u003eThe Big Bad Wolf Get His Comeuppance\u003c\/i\u003e is the second book in the trilogy.","brand":"Enchanted Lion","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50473971613970,"sku":"9781592702657","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_d32454cc-2e84-4c03-a8de-4e89f7b8c33e.jpg?v=1730209467","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/pumpkin-island-9781592702657","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}