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A Fairy Tale Chapter Book for Early Readers
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In which we describe the worlds and lifestyles of elemental beings and what happens to a boy violinist when he is visited by brownie gnomes and taken into the realm of fairies. Beginning readers are certain to delight in this unique fantasy. |
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THE GATE BETWEEN THE WORLDS BOOK 1 THE RETURN OF THE BROWNIES |
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| Listen to a child's review of THE RETURN OF THE BROWNIES on PUBLIC RADIO | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| by M.E. Heller | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The phenomenal success of the Brownie gnome, attributed largely to Palmer Cox, but celebrated by numerous other authors through the 19th and 20th centuries, has all but faded from memory. Cameras, cookies, Girl Scouts, and other modern remnants, prove that the Brownies have an enduring legacy. As M.E. Heller confirms in The Return of the Brownies, the playful spirits who enchanted Palmer Cox over a century ago, are alive and well in a dragon's lair in Underland. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The magic of fairies is not an end in itself. Its virtue is in its operations. Among these are the satisfactions of certain primordial human desires, one of which is to survey the depths of time and space, and another is to hold communion with other living things.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN |
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| M.E. Heller is an artist and scholar who has received national acclain for her handcrafted cloth dolls. Archetypal and literary characters she has portrayed attracted the attention of the Strong Museum in Rochester, New York and led, in 1986, to the creation of a line of dolls based on the Palmer Cox Brownie. In 1999, she provided dolls and artwork to the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House for their traveling exhibition in conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the Brownie Camera. Her research into the characters, mythology, and legends of the Brownies reaffirmed her belief in the underlying benevolence and reverence for Mother Earth, inspiring the author to write this story. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Martha Gradisher is a highly lauded freelance illustrator and graphic designer. Her Sony 2000 London award for illustration and animation is outstanding among many other prestigious advertising and web page awards she has received. Her clients include the James Beard Foundation, the History Channel, Maybelline, and McGraw Hill. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| With your order of this illustrated hard bound book, you will receive a copy of an original Palmer Cox bookmark | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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What will you read when you have finished Harry Potter?
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| copyright 2006 Martha E. Heller All rights reserved | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||