About the Author

BARBARA THORNSJO was a gifted folk artist who worked in papier-mâché, paint, pen and ink and a variety of other media to create signs, arrangements, tables, jack-in-the-boxes and many more wonderful and eccentric pieces. In the late '80s her jack-in-the-boxes were exhibited at the Farnsworth Art Museum in Rockland, Maine, and featured on the PBS series MADE IN MAINE. She died in 2010.