It all began one spring morning when I was taking my usual walk around the lake called Granite in the shire of Chess. Everything was fresh and green as nature once again welcomed the new season. A short distance on my walk, I was startled by a small creature of about eighteen inches tall that came out from the thick foliage and began to talk to me. I didn't want him to feel uncomfortable so I returned his greeting of hello. He then asked me if I had seen his pet chipmunk Spunkie, to which I replied that I had not. He then joined me on my walk, telling me all about his many adventures. Apparently, forest gnomes began each day planning just what they wanted to do that day. They called these activities adventures. They could be the planning of the inchworm races or the unplanned appearance of the rare and elusive wandering pine. I listened to the gnome Nog tell many of his adventures as we walked around the lake, looking for his pet chipmunk. As quick as he showed up, he just as quickly disappeared as he scurried back into the brush. The stories in this book contain the stories I could remember from our conversation. Each chapter contains one of his adventures. Enjoy them all!

This book contains the many adventures of the Gnome Nogh and his friends. It was designed for the young at heart?. The surrounding woodlands of New Hampshire inspired the stories you will experience in your reading of this book. These stories build on the positive virtues we should all aspire for a happy life. They may make you laugh or cry, but all will entertain and release the rich imagination that slumbers within.

Someone is stealing gnome statues in Milton’s neighborhood! Or are they alive and walking off on their own? And to make matters worse, Ms. Viola has been kidnapped! Milton and Priscilla enter the magic portal to the land of the gnomes to rescue Ms. Viola and get to the bottom of this predicament when Gnomes in the Hood becomes a reality!

Young Domkin has become the new king of the gnomes but Domkin's Grandfather King Nickelbuck had left him a log of the war with the fairies. In these logs, a mystery is revealed. Join Domkin along with his best friend Landon on a quest to solve this mystery.

Maggie Parker is an Elemental learning to make magic. After a showdown with Simon Wesley, it's clear she's running out of time. Nothing is going as planned. Did she just turn a mouse into a corgi? Magic is a lot more complicated than she realized. Maggie has to find the magic compass and rescue an old friend who may hold the answers. Did I mention she's living on borrowed time? The quest could fix it all. A Godwin Knight has joined Maggie and Bernie, swearing to protect the newest Elemental on her journey. But Maggie needs to figure out who she can trust, including that tall drink of water, Jake. She needs a plan and fast. Will she find the other four Elementals in time to gather the necessary ancient tools? Click read for free or buy now to continue the adventures with Maggie and Bernie in The Gnome's Legacy.

Gnomes in the Garden is filled with tales of the authors' intriguing encounters with members of the Celtic Faerie tribes. The Fair Folk share their personal stories, spiritual quests, and adventures, so that you may learn for yourself what daily life is like in the Faerie realms. The Faerie also take this opportunity to present some of their most sacred spiritual teachings. These Celtic Christian teachings shine a new light upon the Holy Grail and its deeper meaning for Humanity. Animal Spirit Guides from the Faerie realm are on hand to provide the reader with step-by-step instructions on how to travel safely within the spirit realms through the art of shamanic journeying. Here you will also find Merlin's prophecies for the future of Mother Earth, so you may begin to prepare for impending changes which will have a great impact upon your life and the lives of those around you. The stories and teachings in Gnomes in the Garden open a gateway for seekers to explore the living world of the Celtic Faerie and walk the enchanted pathways of Tir na n'Og, Land of the Ever-Young.

Tracing its distant origins to the villa of the Roman emperor Hadrian in the second century AD, the eccentric phenomenon of the ornamental hermit enjoyed its heyday in the England of the eighteenth century It was at this time that it became highly fashionable for owners of country estates to commission architectural follies for their landscape gardens. These follies often included hermitages, many of which still survive, often in a ruined state. Landowners peopled their hermitages either with imaginary hermits or with real hermits - in some cases the landowner even became his own hermit. Those who took employment as garden hermits were typically required to refrain from cutting their hair or washing, and some were dressed as druids. Unlike the hermits of the Middle Ages, these were wholly secular hermits, products of the eighteenth century fondness for 'pleasing melancholy'. Although the fashion for them had fizzled out by the end of the eighteenth century, they had left their indelible mark on both the literature as well as the gardens of the period. And, as Gordon Campbell shows, they live on in the art, literature, and drama of our own day - as well as in the figure of the modern-day garden gnome. This engaging and generously illustrated book takes the reader on a journey that is at once illuminating and whimsical, both through the history of the ornamental hermit and also around the sites of many of the surviving hermitages themselves, which remain scattered throughout England, Scotland, and Ireland. And for the real enthusiast, there is even a comprehensive checklist, enabling avid hermitage-hunters to locate their prey.