You Both Have Plenty

　　"Yes. Do you like the otter?"

　　"Of course I do."

　　Jafet patted the otter on the head and asked, "And is the gnome your friend?"

　　"Of course."

　　"Then you have the secret already. For the simple secret to being warm from the inside out is friendship, of which you both have plenty."

Grome from Nome
written by Stephen Cosgrove, illustrated by Robin James
ISBN 978-1-57061-777-5

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Alaska

　　Flapping his arms, stomping his feet, and shouting all the way, he traveled across the ice and snow until he skittered down into the state of Alaska and onto the shores of the Bearing Sea.

　　Unlike the North Pole, here there were forests of birch and aspen. But like where he came from, it was still very, very cold.

　　Winter windfall branches were scattered about, and the gnome quickly set about digging a pit and filling it with kindling and such.

　　But poor Alappuu had a wealth of ideas but not a single match with which to light a fire.

Grome from Nome
written by Stephen Cosgrove, illustrated by Robin James
ISBN 978-1-57061-777-5

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Warm from the Inside Out

　　Finally, with snow swirling about his legs, he packed a bag with his few worldly wonders: a pair of pajamas, a bristly brush, a small steel pick he found. With the pack flopped over his back, he left the North Pole, never to return.

　　"I will fa-fa-find warm from the inside out or my na-na-name is not Alappuu."

Grome from Nome
written by Stephen Cosgrove, illustrated by Robin James
ISBN 978-1-57061-777-5

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