The Gnomes of Knot-Hole Manor Bilingual Chinese English [Kindle Edition]

Adele Marie Crouch (Author, Illustrator), Bin Hu (Translator)

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Product Description

Have you ever seen something out of the corner of your eye? When you turned your head was it gone? Could it have been a shadow? No, there was nothing there to cast a shadow. Maybe it was a fly or a moth. Or................ Maybe it was a Gnome!
Do you believe in Gnomes? Go on a camp-out with Jeff and Brenda.
Follow them in their search for the elusive Gnomes of Knot-Hole Manor
This book contains English, traditional Mandarin characters, and Pinyin.

Product Details

• Format: Kindle Edition
• File Size: 8959 KB
• Publisher: Creations by Crouch (September 26, 2011)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
• Language: English
• ASIN: B005QB06SY
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #316,152 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

More About the Author

"Catherine's Travels" is an historic novel that takes place in Missouri during the 1800's. Catherine and her family flee war torn Austria seeking a new life in America. Disaster strikes and Catherine finds herself alone in the wilderness.

"Catherine's Travels Book 2 ~ Lawson's Search" After Lawson's beautiful wife, Catherine, is kidnapped he embarks on a search that will take him across the United States, over the Rocky Mountains and into the land of the Navajo. Catherine will take a terrifying, yet rewarding journey with her husband's starch enemy. Blue Eyes goes on a vision quest that will change his life forever.


"How The Fox Got His Color" and "Where Hummingbirds Come From" are picture books for children ages 3 - 6 years of age. "The Dance of The Caterpillars", a lesson in prepositions is designed for 2nd grade students. "The Gnomes of Knot-Hole Manor" is a chapter book targeting 3rd graders.

Adele is an artist as well as a published author. Her books are available on the internet (Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Waldenbooks), through her web site (http://www.creationsbycrouch.com ), on Kindle and on Nook.

Adele's children's books have become popular for English as a second language students all over the world and are on the top 10 list of ESL study material on Amazon. Her website is filled with study material to help people study foreign languages. It includes - vocabulary lists, MP3 files, and even has a list of the questions you need to know to pass the US citizenship exam. All of this is free to the viewer. See: www.creationsbycrouch.com
If you wish to contact Adele, you can email: [e-mail]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2.0 out of 5 stars Why publish a non-text based ebook?, January 22, 2012

By 

Greg (Connecticut, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Gnomes of Knot-Hole Manor Bilingual Chinese English (Kindle Edition)

Maybe I'm just confused, but I really don't understand why the author even bothered to make this an ebook rather than just publishing it on her website. The text is not e-text at all, but just images of text. Small ones at that, and they are just a small box of text with huge margins in the center of a (e-ink) Kindle reader. Being just images, you can not adjust the text size, spacing, font, etc. like you can with a real ebook, and the zoom function that works for pdf reading does not seem to apply either, so you are stuck with unusably small text. Also, the description says "text-to-speech" is enabled, but since there is no text, that does nothing. Also, are there supposed to be illustrations in this book? Because they do not seem to be there when viewing this in a Kindle3 (keyboard model) or on an iPhone Kindle reader?

I saw the author give the excuse that Kindle does not support Chinese text in a response to another review for a different book.. but that has not been true for over a year...

"Support for Non-Latin Characters:
Kindle supports the display of non-Latin characters, so you can read books and documents in the translation that's right for you. Kindle displays Cyrillic (such as Russian), Japanese, Chinese (Traditional and Simplified), and Korean characters, in addition to Latin and Greek scripts."

5.0 out of 5 stars Little gem, January 15, 2012

By 

Declan Munro "Shardpublications" (Uk) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Gnomes of Knot-Hole Manor Bilingual Chinese English (Kindle Edition)

This is truely a little gem. it is designed to assist education but is also just a lovely story. I am envious as a writer myself of this seasoned writer's obvious talent and any child or inner child would love it. the illustrations are delightfully niave and would appeal to children, clolourful and cheeky.