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All you've ever wanted to know about gnomes!
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Grace, Beth, and Vinca all listened politely as Lenox went on with her story. “We also helped Mr.Wimple plant a row of white asparagus.” (Mr. Wimple was the gnome who helped tend the Sommersets’ garden.) Garden gnomes loved to share information and teach gardening secrets. And gnomes especially loved to work in the gardens of homes that had fairies because fairies could see and talk to them. Gnomes had to magically disguise themselves as ordinary objects around regular people. In fact, Jennifer’s parents often saw Mr.Wimple, but thought he was a soccer ball, a butternut squash, or a fallen tree branch. For more information about garden gnomes and Firefly and the Quest of the Black Squirrel, visit here! |
"My Daughter's New Favorite Book"
She has read it about four times. This is a pretty special book for her to take an interest like that. I read it yesterday and I like it myself. ... We like the fun fairy wands and the dog Peanut best. The gremlins and what they are scared of is cute too. Maggie is also hunting around the garden for gnomes but we know we won't be able to see them in their disguises. It's just fun.—Leah Sandburg, parent and Fairy Chronicles fan
From Periwinkle and the Cave of Courage:
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By consulting their fairy handbooks, the fairies found out that wood gnomes differed from garden gnomes in several ways. First of all, wood gnomes had beards, instead of the bushy moustaches that garden gnomes sported. And they lived in tree houses instead of dugout houses. Their purpose was pretty much the same though: both garden gnomes and wood gnomes were tasked with the job of adding colors to nature and helping to make plants grow. |
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A small wooden door with a brass doorknob sat at the opposite end of the crystal-filled room. Above the door, the instructions read, “Recolor the crystals to recharge them.” Mr. Ambertoes was already rolling up his sleeves. “This will be hard work,” he told his friends. “And I need your help to complete the work quickly enough to move on. Doing the task by myself would take a couple of days.” The gnome scratched his chin and furrowed his brow in deep thought. Then he said, “I am going to teach each of you a gnome magic colorization technique, and I am going to give each of you a magic mushroom spore. I will put a spore into one of your pockets. You must keep it in your pocket while you work. The spore will help you work faster, and the magic of the spore will make the coloring of the crystals more permanent.” Mr. Ambertoes reached into one of his jacket pockets and pulled out a pinch of tiny mushroom spores, too small for even the fairies or brownies to see. He then carefully put one spore into each of their pockets. Tom steered Mr. Ambertoes away from the jacket pocket where he kept his magical shamrock, and made him put the spore into his left vest pocket instead. Then Mr. Ambertoes proceeded to teach each of them a technique to add pigment to a particular color of crystal. First, he told Spiderwort,“For the light blue crystals, stand on your left foot and say the word jiggy-jog three times.” Mr. Ambertoes instructed John next. “Sit cross-legged with your hands over your ears and say wee-yi-bah to color the dark red ones.” Then Mr. Ambertoes taught Tom to color the yellow ones. “Touch your toes and say apoof, twice.” James, Mr. Smith, and the rest of the fairies all received similar instructions to work on a particular color of crystal including green, pink, dark blue, gold, and purple. For more about Mr. Ambertoes the wood gnome and Periwinkle and the Cave of Courage, visit here! |
