A Gnome For All Occasions

Adult fun fantasy.

You've met Gnomeo and Juliet and Gnome Alone, now meet Griswald!"Impressively beautiful" - Midwest Book Review on In the Land of Elves "Luminous illustrations in pencil and vibrant watercolors" - Kirkus Reviews on An Illustrated Treasury of Grimm's Fairy Tales Griswald is a little gnome who lives in the rain gutter. One day, it rains very hard and he is washed down the drainpipe into an old rain barrel. At first, Griswald is unsure about his new home, but soon he meets all the animals, birds and plants that live in the garden and has wonderful adventures with his new friends.Through the seasons, Griswald explores a whole new world in the garden, gets into sticky situations, helps his new companions and even learns to dance! Perfect for bedtime, each easy-to-read chapter tells a different story of Griswald's adventures and is filled with beautiful illustrations of lively gnomes and sprites, colourful plants and flowers, and characterful animals and birds.This delightful chapter storybook from Daniela Drescher, the much-loved creator of In the Land of Fairies and the Little Fairy series, will enchant and entertain children everywhere.

Buttered 'n' Twisted Yarns is a collection of unusual short stories catering to the secret and dark desires that reside deep within all of us. There's something for everyone. The stories portray life in the extreme; the absurd; the comical; and the bizarre. Stories of love gone wrong; hate gone wrong. Life perceived through the eyes of children, and even animals. Buttered 'n' Twisted Yarns also contains historical, futuristic and supernatural tales. Buckle up and take a macabre ride on the action packed 5-minute fiction express. Come and meet some of the homicidal maniacs, gorgeous gourmets, pyromaniacs and credit card wielding ghouls that make up a gruesome cross section of everyday life.

Morality is one of the fundamental structures of any society, enabling complex groups to form, negotiate their internal differences and persist through time. In the first book-length study of Roman popular morality, Dr Morgan argues that we can recover much of the moral thinking of people across the Empire. Her study draws on proverbs, fables, exemplary stories and gnomic quotations, to explore how morality worked as a system for Roman society as a whole and in individual lives. She examines the range of ideas and practices and their relative importance, as well as questions of authority and the relationship with high philosophy and the ethical vocabulary of documents and inscriptions. The Roman Empire incorporated numerous overlapping groups, whose ideas varied according to social status, geography, gender and many other factors. Nevertheless it could and did hold together as an ethical community, which was a significant factor in its socio-political success.

Small, quick, and clever, gnomes are one of the few creatures to have survived to modern times. To this very day they remain living in the forests and in the mountains all around us, ever watchful, revealing no more of themselves than the rustle of underbrush and the patter of small feet. But everything will change for a little gnome named One when a neighborhood is built in the mountains he calls home. Frightened and alone, One will have to brave a strange new world by himself, one filled with countless dangers each more terrifying than the last—the worst of all being humans.