TITLE: THE GNOME FROM NOMEPUBLISHER: Price/Stern/Sloan Publishers, 1974
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MY GRADE: B
SYNOPSIS: A gnome in Alaska desperately tries to find a way to get warm from the inside out.
MY THOUGHTS: The unnamed gnome meets an unnamed otter in Alaska. Looks like later publications of this book have given the gnome a name. Neither can get warm and they think if they meet humans they can learn from them the secret to how to get warm. They do something that draws humans to where they are and a kind man helps them. He tells them that the secret to warmth is something they've already got in each other. That's not necessarily true because the gnome and otter have just met so couldn't have really developed what it is the human told them they have already. My favorite illustration from the book is here.
PUBLISHER: Price Stern Sloan, Inc, 1987
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MY GRADE: A
SYNOPSIS: A bunny and a bear want to be friends but each set of parents is prejudiced against the other animal group.
MY THOUGHTS: Buttermilk, a female rabbit, encounters a few creatures in the woods when she goes searching for 'smelly, old bears' that her parents said moved into the neighborhood- a beaver, skunk, and a bear cub named Jingle, who's gender is told, who tells her they're trying to find the rabbits their parents were talking about. This book isn't to be confused with another one from this series called 'Buttermilk.' It's a really sweet story but the ending isn't positive in the way you think it will be. That's why it doesn't get an A+ from me. The illustrations are colorful and beautiful. My favorite one is here.
PUBLISHER: Price Stern Sloan, 1981
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MY GRADE: A
SYNOPSIS: Despite the disapproval of their parents, the young rabbits flock to hear old Grampa-Lop tell his magical tales every afternoon.
MY THOUGHTS: There's really no moral to this story. The older rabbits, not their parents like the synopsis says, really dislike the baby rabbits listening to stories told by Grampa-Lop, who turns into the Wizard of the Wood while telling them. He's old and his fur has turned gray but when telling the stories, it turns silver. They don't like the 'lies' he tells the baby rabbits and won't let them go into the woods to listen to his stories anymore. The baby rabbits get depressed and can't get any work done so at the suggestion of the babies, they all go to the usual spot in the woods to hear stories told by Grampa-Lop. It's no surprise that the older rabbits like the stories and they all go into the thicket each day to hear his stories. The best part is that Grampa-Lop has bangs. My favorite image is here.
PUBLISHER: Price Stern Sloan, 1978
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MY GRADE: A
SYNOPSIS: The Furry Eyefulls are so busy trying to see everything beautiful, that they can't even enjoy it! It takes a little blind snake named Kartusch to help them really experience the beauty of their surroundings.
MY THOUGHTS: The Furry Eyeballs are little creatures who never close their eyes or sleep for fear of missing out on seeing something. They encounter blind Kartusch, who teaches them to 'see' with their other senses and they become fast friends. The images in this book are so classically 1970s and I love every one of 'em but this one's my favorite.
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