Gnomes
by Wil Huygen
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- Seller
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Orange, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Coffee table size with illus. dust jacket and endpapers. Color illustrations by Rien Poortvliet. Includes nine folk tales that have to do with gnomes. "Elusive and cunning, these happy little men with their affinity for animals and knowledge of plant life run about the night on their secret duties.."
Synopsis
Treating his subject as Audubon might have treated a new species of bird (and with a twinkle in his eye) the artist portrays Gnome families in their daily - actually nightly - activities, since Gnomes never leave their underground houses in daylight. Follow Papa Gnome as he rises for breakfast in the early evening; see him chopping wood, working in a Gnome foundry or glass factory, and assisting various animal friends in distress. For Gnomes are benevolent allies of wild animals (and human beings as well, though we are seldom aware of their intervention). Watch Gnome workers disentangle a deer's horns from barbed wire; see how Gnomes build their houses, educate their children, court and marry, travel on a honeymoon! A delight to the eye and filled with verbal fun, 'Gnomes' will be a treat for the whole family: as a book to show little ones, as a spoof of scientific studies for the sophisticate, and as a charming piece of make-up reality for every reader.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bound2please Books B2plz (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012124C
- Title
- Gnomes
- Author
- Wil Huygen
- Illustrator
- Rien Poortvliet
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harry Abrams
- Date Published
- 1977
- Pages
- 212
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- wee people, woodland gnomes, Scandinavian, folklore
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