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THE MYTHOLOGICAL BROWNIE IS A GNOME
THE RETURN OF THE BROWNIES
A chapter book for eager young readers about the brownie gnomes who may have lived with 19th Century children's writer and illustrator, Palmer Cox in the manor home he called "Brownie Castle."
With every book you shall receive a copy of an original bookmark by Palmer Cox
The Return of the Brownies examines:
*The mythological brownie
*A boy violinst with Second Sight
*A wizard with green hair
*A Fairy Queen
*Licensed toys become evil
*Supposed lifestyles of a variety of elemental beings
Brownies, aside from being cameras, cookies, Girl Scouts, and "points" (as in "brownie points"), are actually gnomes. In fact, the brownie gnome is much older than these other things. As long ago as the 17th Century, the great German doctor, Paracelsus, designated the Brownie an "Earth Elemental." This earth elemental, or gnome, was said to abide in hollow tree trunks. beneath forest leaf and brush, and sometimes, in your house.
Perhaps real brownies lived with writer/illustrator Palmer Cox, in the towered manor house he called "Brownie Castle," where he settled in the early 1900's. This was after he made the Brownie famous. Perhaps he saw their tiny shadows, heard their footsteps or, out of the corner of his eye, watched them dart across the floor. We have imagined that he did. What if, after more than 100 years, the brownies return to Brownie Castle? Such is the setting of our tale.
The Return of the Brownies, Book One of The Gate Between The Worlds, is a classic modern fairy tale about the Brownies and the elemental worlds that lie just beyond our sight. Skylar, a nine-year-old with immense curiosity, can see gnomes and fairies and other elemental spirits as well, for he is blessed with second sight.
With the help of brownies and fairies, Skylar defeats the meeneemons, evil toys who have proliferated on Earth and are threatening to bar fairies from crossing the Gate between the Worlds. In Book Two: Who Killed The Flowers,* brownies, boys, wizards, and fairies journey to the World of Water to slay, amidst an odd assortment of mermaids and fish, the disgusting King Slimebottom. In Book Three, Sparkalot and The Red Stone, Skylar and friend encounter Fearwing, a mischievous salamander prince from the World of Fire, and wrest a red stone from a terrible dragon..... COMING SOON
Perhaps real brownies lived with writer/illustrator Palmer Cox, in the towered manor house he called "Brownie Castle," where he settled in the early 1900's. This was after he made the Brownie famous. Perhaps he saw their tiny shadows, heard their footsteps or, out of the corner of his eye, watched them dart across the floor. We have imagined that he did. What if, after more than 100 years, the brownies return to Brownie Castle? Such is the setting of our tale.
The Return of the Brownies, Book One of The Gate Between The Worlds, is a classic modern fairy tale about the Brownies and the elemental worlds that lie just beyond our sight. Skylar, a nine-year-old with immense curiosity, can see gnomes and fairies and other elemental spirits as well, for he is blessed with second sight.
With the help of brownies and fairies, Skylar defeats the meeneemons, evil toys who have proliferated on Earth and are threatening to bar fairies from crossing the Gate between the Worlds. In Book Two: Who Killed The Flowers,* brownies, boys, wizards, and fairies journey to the World of Water to slay, amidst an odd assortment of mermaids and fish, the disgusting King Slimebottom. In Book Three, Sparkalot and The Red Stone, Skylar and friend encounter Fearwing, a mischievous salamander prince from the World of Fire, and wrest a red stone from a terrible dragon..... COMING SOON
THE RETURN OF THE BROWNIES
BOOK 1 THE GATE BETWEEN THE WORLDS
by M.E. Heller
Jllustrations by Martha Gradisher
Hard Cover ISBN9749382-03
256 pages
21 black&white illustrations
copyright 2006 Martha E. Heller All rights reserved
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