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When climate change and human interference forces four gnomes to leave their beloved home, they embark on a long, thrilling adventure that takes them over land and sea in this thrilling sequel to the first Little Grey Men book.Sneezewort, Baldmoney, Dodder, and Cloudberry are the last gnomes in Britain. Life along the Folly Brook, where the gnomes live companionably with the birds and beasts, is wild and wet, just the way they like it. But one spring day, waking up from a long winter sleep, show more the gnomes are confronted by an inescapable fact: Their brook is drying up and will soon be uninhabitable.
A sequel to B.B.’s award-winning The Little Grey Men, this novel is about the gnomes’ perilous and daring search for a new home. Warwickshire and the rest of their beloved country have been despoiled by men, and the gnomes must find another place as wild and wet as their home once was.
Part fantasy, part ecological parable, The Little Grey Men Go Down the Bright Stream was first published in 1948 and remains as exciting, poignant, and far-seeing as ever. show less
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The gnomes' peaceful existence beside the Folly Stream is shattered when humans divert the flow. In search of a new home, they set off downstream on the river, with their hearts set on reaching an island over the sea - Ireland.
Catastrophe follows catastrophe, many of them of their own making, though the god Pan keeps a watchful eye over them as they make friends among the other country folk - and some enemies, with a surprising change in character among their own brotherhood.
Catastrophe follows catastrophe, many of them of their own making, though the god Pan keeps a watchful eye over them as they make friends among the other country folk - and some enemies, with a surprising change in character among their own brotherhood.
A superb sequel to the equally enchanting Little Grey Men. Very captivating, gripping & great for readers of all ages. Highly recommended.
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- Canonical title
- Down the Bright Stream
- Alternate titles
- The Little Grey Men Go Down the Bright Stream
- Original publication date
- 1948
- Epigraph
- The wonder of the world, the beauty and the power,
the shapes of things, their colours,
lights and shades; these I saw.
Look ye also while life lasts. - Dedication
- For my daughter Angela June
- First words
- It was the beginning of spring.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)And after all, the Stream People must know what they are talking about!
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- Fiction and Literature, Children's Books, Kids
- DDC/MDS
- 823.912 — Literature & rhetoric English & Old English literatures English fiction 1900- 1901-1999 1901-1945
- LCC
- PZ7 .W324 .D — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Juvenile belles lettres
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