If it looks like a random kitschy item you find in numerous display cases in stores across the country, you would be right. I snagged this up as a gnomish impulse buy at From My Shelf Books up in Wellsboro, PA when our family visited in October.
This box contains three items: a three-inch garden gnome pictured on the box cover, a tiny 32-page book, and bubble wrap (to protect the gnome, it is some form of ceramic and fragile).
The book, written by Allison Trulock in 2005, is a little informational packet of the traditional and modern myths of gnomes, focusing on the beloved garden gnome. The history portion is interesting, and probably the basis for the Garden Gnome wikipedia page, even for 2005 I hope it's not the opposite. They also cover the "friends and foes of the garden gnome," ranging from the Gnome Liberation Front, to drunk college students, to snooty neighborhoods and garden shows.
In the famed 5-Gnome Rating System, I give Wee Little Garden Gnome three gnomes:
For $6.95, it's an impulse buy for the gnomo-phile in your life. I don't know where the box and book will end up in a house with two kids and a ravenous pooch, but the mini garden gnome gets a spot of honor on my desk at work, where the book recommended.
The bubble wrap, I'm sorry to say, didn't even make the ride home.
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Gnomish fever at its best. Fun acquisition.
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