The Recycling Garden Gnomes & At the Allotment

By Elaine Rogers

The garden gnomes all live happily together in their toadstool houses near the pond in Pauline Green's garden. They are simply fanatical about recycling. Nothing is wasted if it can be reused or made into something beautiful. This is the story of how they came to live with Pauline and Neddy the goat, furnishing their new homes using bits and pieces humans throw away and living in harmony with the natural world. In 'At the Allotment' the fruits and vegetables are boasting about their merits. Each one thinks himself better in some way than all the others. Sunny the Scarecrow and Pete the Pixie have to keep the peace as best they can.

• Language: English
• Publisher: A H Stockwell
• Release date: Jun 6, 2019
• ISBN: 9780722348840

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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

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Copyright © 2019 Elaine Rogers

First published in Great Britain, 2019

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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

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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