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Children's literature portal; The Secret Book of Gnomes is a [when?] series of books about gnomes written for children. They contain fictional stories and guides about how gnomes live in harmony with their environment, such as what a gnome has in his first aid kit and how a gnome's house is built.
Willibrord Joseph Huygen (23 June 1922 – 14 January 2009) was a Dutch book author. He is best known for the picture books on gnomes, illustrated by Rien Poortvliet. [1] [2] [3] Huygen was born in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. The seventh of ten children, his primary occupation was that of a physician. He was married and had five children.
The Woodland Folk is a six part children's book series released between 1983–1984 written and illustrated by Antonio Lupatelli under the pseudonym Tony Wolf. The titles include: [1] Meet the Woodland Folk (1983, Dean, ISBN 978-0603003431) The Woodland Folk Meet the Gnomes (1983, Dean, ISBN 978-0603003479)
It is the eighth Dragonlance novel to be published, and the second book in the "Dragonlance Tales" series, all three books of which are anthologies of stories set in the Dragonlance milieu. The other two books in this series are The Magic of Krynn and Love and War. Unlike the Dragonlance novels published up until that point, the Tales books do ...
The majority of picture books are constructed in the same way as books for older children and adults, but there are a number of special types. Board books are picture books printed on sturdy cardboard—called paperboard—for young children who tend to be less careful with books. Paperboard is used for both the cover and the interior pages.
After Lenore finds a fairy costume, she is mistaken by gnomes for their long-lost queen. They take her to their lair, where she asks how, by being bored, they have grown so greatly in numbers. A gnome attempts to answer by using euphemisms for sexual intercourse, but instead this makes her believe that a "two-backed beast" is also in the lair ...
Picture book Brooklyn's Lucky Fin [34] Jenna Regan Protagonist is a girl with what she calls a "lucky fin," referring to her right hand specifically. 2020 Picture book Evie's Missing Something [35] Khadija Johnson Protagonist is a girl missing the lower part of her left arm. 2020 Picture book We Are Little Feminists On-the-Go [36]
The book is written like a biology book, describing the habitat of the mythical creatures known as gnomes (Dutch: kabouter).In the book, Huygen and Poortvliet say they've spent at least twenty years observing them and call their study the "first work of consequence on the subject to be published since Wunderlich's bulky and dubious treatise De Hominibus Parvisimis appeared in 1580".