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Date de parution
06 juin 2019
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EAN13
9780722348840
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
1 Mo
Publié par
Date de parution
06 juin 2019
EAN13
9780722348840
Langue
English
Poids de l'ouvrage
1 Mo
THE RECYCLING GARDEN GNOMES
AND
AT THE ALLOTMENT
Two Stories for Children of All Ages
Elaine Rogers
ARTHUR H. STOCKWELL LTD
Torrs Park, Ilfracombe, Devon
Established 1898
www.ahstockwell.co.uk
Copyright © 2019 Elaine Rogers
First published in Great Britain, 2019
The moral rights of the author have been asserted.
All rights reserved.
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By the same author:
Winter Down on the Farm
Spring Down on the Farm
Summer Down on the Farm
Autumn Down on the Farm
Night-Time in the Toy Shop
The Cheese Mice
For my aunt, uncle and cousin: the real Pauline, Jim and Jason.
The Recycling Garden Gnomes
Characters in The Recycling Garden Gnomes
Miss Pauline Green
Neddy - Pauline’s Goat
Francis - The Frog
Betsy - The Butterfly
The Garden Gnomes
Jim
Jason
Will
Sam
Tom
Benji
In the Chemist
Kully
Ami
In the Optician’s
Rose
Raj
Chapter One
I expect you all help your parents with the recycling at home in your houses. We throw away too many things - things that perhaps we could reuse or other people may be able to use. They say one person’s rubbish is another’s treasure. What do you think about it?
There was once a special garden where the little people who lived there took recycling to great lengths. They were garden gnomes - the Recycling Garden Gnomes.
They lived in the back garden of a nice lady who lived alone with only her pet goat, Neddy, for company. Neddy lived in a small barn at the bottom of the garden. He was a very naughty goat. He used to eat everything he could get hold of in his reach (a lot of goats do, as many stories tell us).
In the pond near the barn lived a frog called Francis. He was very friendly with the two garden gnomes. Their names were Jim and Jason. Jim carried a fishing net and Jason a garden spade. They had been bought for Miss Pauline Green (the owner, who lived in the cottage belonging to the garden) by her niece Rose. Rose worked in the optician’s shop in the next town. She had thought they would help to keep her auntie’s garden looking a happy place.
Pauline loved the two gnomes and planned to buy more to fill up her little garden. She had asked Rose if she would drive her to the garden centre in the next town when she had her next morning off (Rose only worked at the optician’s in the afternoons).
Rose had said, “What about tomorrow morning? I’ll pick you up at ten o’clock.”
“Thank you, dear,” her aunt replied. “That would be lovely.”
That evening when Miss Green put Neddy into his barn for the night she told him that she would be bringing back more garden gnomes the next day from the garden centre.
Jim and Jason overheard what Miss Green had said and looked at each other. Jim nodded his head at Jason and Jason winked his left eye at Jim.
When Pauline had gone back into her cottage Jim said to Jason, “New gnomes tomorrow - hope they are as clever as us two!”
“What if they aren’t and they can’t talk and walk about at night like we can?” asked Jason.
“They will just have to stand still in the garden all the time and we can boss them about,” said Jim, chuckling.
