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The Adventures of Anastasia Finn • Book One

Anastasia and the Dust Gnomes

Written by William Ochs

Anastasia has already had a bath. Recently. Probably. Unfortunately, Dad mentions the Dust Gnomes — and a perfectly ordinary evening begins developing planning departments, road crews, visiting delegations and a serious housing problem.

Ages 5–840-page retail coreFull colorFamily read-aloud
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Ordinary evening. Increasingly official emergency.

The text stays calm. The illustrations reveal what the Dust Gnomes are actually doing while the family attempts to finish supper.

Anastasia inspects the grass with a magnifying glass beside the family cat on a sunlit hillside terrace in Georgia, as the grown-ups tend flowers and read nearby

Meet Anastasia

Six years old, observant, serious about evidence and living with her family in the beautiful country of Georgia.

The Dust Gnome kingdom: rows of tiny gnomes queue at a Municipal Permitting Office beneath portraits of nine gnome kings, among a giant boot, a thread spool, a button and a pencil

The Kingdom Grows

What begins as a few surveyors eventually develops neighborhoods, ministries and a royal governance problem.

Evening at home: Anastasia sits on the rug beside the family cat, smiling at two lantern-carrying Dust Gnomes by a tiny arched door in the wall, while her family relaxes in the lamplit room behind her

Ours Are

The evening ends warm, safe and quiet. The Dust Gnomes, however, may have found other accommodations.

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Retail paperback

US$16.99 • 40 pages

The complete Book One reader edition.

  • Full core story
  • Giorgi I feature
  • Anastasia's Georgia
  • Book Two teaser
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US$69.99 • 60 pages • the fullest edition of Book One

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  • 20 additional pages beyond the retail edition
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The adventure continues

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