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.

Dr Ambrose Penn, the absent-minded scientist was talking to himself, and behind the skirting board the mice were listening. Monty, Mandy, Maria and Maisie were not usually interested in the Professor's scientific ideas, but this was different. This was almost unbelievable. But hadn't they heard it from Dr Ambrose Penn himself? The moon was cheese! Soon the family of mice were eagerly making preparations for the first mouse expedition to the moon. Every night when the moon came out they would think of the cheese, just hanging there in the sky, ready for the taking. One way or another the cheese mice were going to the moon.

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