Plamkin
A character in the children's story "The Hairy Pumpkin" written by Tracie E Bush, that is a little animated pumpkin being with all the characteristics of a human in pumpkin form that grows in to an animated Jack-O-Lantern.
"One day when I'm no longer a plamkin and I grow up to be a scary Jack-O-Lantern I'm going to be the scariest Jack-O-Lantern around!"