Woodsies can take on any human shape, and have appeared in larger and finer forms than we can ever hope to have, though mostly they just need welldisguised bodies strong enough to care for plants that like woodfiltered light. They are mainly practical, wise, and helpful, but all families have misfits and troublemakers and sometimes young woodsies like Leaflag wont grow up and have to learn the hard way. This rebellious, neerdowell woodsy only half listens to his lessons and training, and after idling his way through summer is frightened to face a season of work to make up for this during the warm and secure underground winter festivities. He decides to go his own way, but the cold and hunger are too much for him, so he takes refuge in a dolls house inside the playroom of a large house. The two young children, whose noise and size at first terrify the visitor, are delighted with his presence, a secret closekept from adults. But because he has not paid full attention to his training, every trick he plays to show off cannot be reversed, and this gets his friends into more and more trouble. He becomes disruptive, selfish, isolated and cowers away in fear of being trapped. After many adventures, including a night in a mouse trap, he has to make for the closed doors of the winter palace, beg for admittance and face up to the discipline of his teachers. Born in Birmingham in 1943, Michael Tolkien grew up in rural South Oxfordshire and North Yorkshire. He studied classics and...

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