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Trouble For Trumpets
Just as the Trumpets, summer creatures who live in a world of warmth and sunshine, prepare to hibernate, the Grumpets, winter creatures who live in the dark, frozen mountains of the north, prepare to take over their land.
Paperback, 32 pages
Published
June 23rd 1990
by Random House Books for Young Readers
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Late in the night, sitting in my little college apartment, paper due in the morning. The mind begins to play tricks. I can't remember the one word I want. I've been stuck on the same sentence for long minutes, plumbing my brain. But what comes up isn't a term meaning 'profiting by use without ownership', oh no. I remember this book.
Not the title, of course, or anything pertinent; nothing that will cause it to show up in my google search. Seared into my brain are little hippo-shaped goblins, depi...more
Not the title, of course, or anything pertinent; nothing that will cause it to show up in my google search. Seared into my brain are little hippo-shaped goblins, depi...more
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The Trumpets are peaceful creatures, but the mean Grumpets are planning an attack on them! The Trumpets must find out about the Grumpets' plot and prepare for a battle. Fantasy; great and involved illustrations.
Ok, don't want to put many kids books on here.. But this is one of the best! The illustrations are amazing. Someday I will buy it for my collection but it is hard to find because it's out of print and people want like $200 for it.
This is the book I remember most fondly from when I was little. Amazingly detailed artwork.
An absolutely stunning book from my childhood, captivating me for hours and hours. Cross' imaginative and detailed illustrations are museum quality.
Fantastic illustrated book
My all-time favorite book when I was a kid
A very strange kids' book about season changes as war, with enormous gorgeous illustrations. As a kid I was fascinated, more by the elaborate borders of the pictures than by anything else in the book - though in retrospect, the battle between the forces of summer and winter (and good and bad moods?) is interestingly weird. Now I own my family's copy, because my parents didn't want it in the house anymore.
Hands down the best artwork I've ever seen in a book. Page after page of beautiful, detailed illustrations that kept me busy for hours at a time when I was growing up. The story is sort of a cold war espionage thriller involving tiny little muppety things called trumpets & grumpets. If part of you deep inside wants to see tiny pea-shooter machine guns strapped to the backs of sparrows, this is the book for you!
I don't remember the plot beyond the two warring species (they kind of looked like hippos), but every page was a wonder. I loved the field-guide aspect, where there were corresponding numbers and plants surrounding the art on each page; sort of a sophisticated Where's Waldo...
I read the 1st edition, sometime in the 80´s! A beautiful big hardcover with beautiful artwork inside! A treasure for any child, and now at the colects prices, a treasure for anyone!
Don't know why I wrote this down, but I did. Large scale book with detailed illustrations of an entire civilization of Trumpet creatures.
Such a cool book that they no longer print. If you ever find one buy it. And then give it to me.
one of my favorite children's books of all times
This may be the first book I ever loved.
AMAZING illustrations!
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