Adam, 7 years old, is the cutest headache his parents have! Naughty, impossible to sit quiet for even 5 minutes, disobeying, “beyond teaching” - not even with those beautiful picture story books his parents carefully select for him! Emily and Bill, Adam's parents, need to be away for two weeks, hence they have to get the grandparents to come and look after him. They leave home with worries about how the two could “survive” the weeks. To their surprise, all they hear from their daily “home check-up” phone-calls with the grandparents are praises of the wonderful grandson, and the great times they have together “reading picture books” -- How could that be possible? Talking to Adam, all Emily & Bill hear are broken descriptions in exciting voices from the little guy, about grandma's “magic robe” that turn grandpa into a “Story Grandpa” and pieces of the stories he heard.
“Magic Robe”? What is that? Emily and Bill couldn't wait to return home to find out.
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Our grandpa has a magic cane.
A story cane!
Take us flying to Storyland.
Magic cane.
Our grandpa has a magic cane.
A story cane!
Take us flying to Storyland.
To live.
To see.
To feel and understand.
Magic cane.
Story cane.
Take us to fly.
Fly up high to Storyland.
Fly up fast to Storyland.
It's story time!
Come join us.
To Storyland.
I think your cousin's tired and needs a nap.
Did he wake up?
Not yet.
How about now?
Nope.
How about now?
Not yet.
How about now?
Not yet.
How about now?
You know, the gnomes are wondering if you are ever going to say hi.
Who cares? I'm not a knife.
Well, I think it's them that pulls the weeds out of my garden.
Grandpa, I think I broke one of them.
Oh no.
Oh no, it's the village carpenter.
What are we going to do?
Put him in the trash?
Well, I don't think that would help the gnomes very much.
What do they need help with?
I don't know if they want me to say.
Please, I won't tell anyone.
Well, the village carpenter has been going to the village for some time now, fixing up the little huts.
Because someone has been attacking the gnome village.
Who's attacking them?
Oh, not who, but what.
And there are four of them.
The story, Kate, will show us.
In the gnome village, every house and farm has been built by the carpenter.
For all the work he did, he only had one assistant to help him.
His name was Nibby.
And he was the biggest and toughest gnome in the yard.
And although Nibby helped the carpenter a lot, he also liked to cause a bit of mischief on the side.
Because he was so strong, he often broke things when he wasn't careful.
Hey, quit it.
Nibby knocked out the carpenter by accident.
Uh-oh.
The entire village was devastated.
The carpenter was the only one who could build homes strong enough to protect the gnomes from monsters.
Monsters?
Yes.
There were four monsters lurking around the gnome village.
And no one was strong enough to defeat them.
I'll fight them. I'll defeat them with my hockey stick.
That's exactly what Nibby said.
And he set out to find the four monsters.
The first monster was a poisonous fungi.
I don't see any fun in that.
If you stay there, don't bother anyone.
The second monster was a little more mobile.
Luckily, Nibby happened to love garlic.
Ew, it's pink.
The mosquito thought so too.
And while it tried to fly away, it got eaten up by the terrible toad.
It really is quite terrible.
After finally defeating the third monster, Nibby went looking for the fourth.
And looking.
But after searching for a whole month, he couldn't find the monster anywhere.
So, Nibby gave up and returned to the gnome village.
What's going on over there?
The gnomes were celebrating that all the four monsters were defeated.
But there's still one.
Well, you see, the gnomes thought that the fourth monster was Nibby.
What? How could they ever think that?
Well, Nibby often teased the gnomes and broke their property.
So, the gnomes became fearful of him and they wanted him gone.
What did he do?
What do you think he did?
I think he helped make all the little huts and became good friends with the gnomes.
That's exactly what he did.
Somebody's awake.
Do gnomes ever take vegetables from your garden?
No, they like berries.
It's the rabbits that take the cucumbers.
Hey, little Ari, did you have a good nap?
What did you dream about?
