There's No Place Like Gnome's
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- $149.00
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- $149.00
Descripción editorial
A new picture book by bestselling illustrator Scott Magoon that is a loving example of a community supporting each other, even in the face of unprecedented circumstances.
Meet Gnome.
He isn't your garden-variety garden gnome. He runs a small hotel for animals, and he works very hard at it. He spends his days fluffing, filing, and feeding the hotel's fountain fish. And his hard work was finally paying off! His hotel had become a place for small animals to stay for a night or two, and all the guests agreed that there was no place like Gnome's.
But then the humans went too far and destroyed the forest that the bigger animals called home, so everyone went to Gnome's. He wanted to turn the bigger animals away, but where else would they go? So Gnome found a way to make room for everyone, despite the hotel being a little cramped.
But when disaster strikes and damages the hotel, the guests are forced to find a new shelter. Gnome worries that all hope is lost until an unlikely guest encourages him to rebuild so that he can once again fluff, file, feed the fountain fish, and welcome guests back to Gnome's.
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An environmentally leaning fairy tale from Magoon (Unflappable) offers readers a hopeful vision that combined efforts to respect and restore nature might heal wounded wild places. Small animals—birds excepted—have always been welcome at Gnome's cozy hotel, but when humans cut down an entire forest, many creatures big and small suddenly require shelter, testing both Gnome's hospitality and the food chain's conventions: "Will so many big predators and little prey get along? Will they eat each other?" A jolly time ensues, however, including feasts in which no one is the main course, and even a "silent disco" during which dancers boogie wearing headphones. Then a terrible summer storm destroys the hotel—depicted by a skeleton-like lightning bolt slashing through the night—and it seems that no comeback is possible. But a coalition of gnomes and wood elves joins forces to rebuild the hotel as a magnificent tree house—birds now allowed—and to replant the forest. Populated by a host of adorable characters (one simply referred to as "the cute baby animal"), the digital illustrations are well worth lingering on. Ages 4–8.
