Diggers - Terry Pratchett

Diggers is the second book in the Bromeliad trilogy, the stars of which are the Nomes (no not Gnomes, Nomes!). The Nomes are small people (about 5 inches in height) who seem to have come from outer space and lived under the floorboards at a store. The signs at the store become laws for them, and they believe that the Store (and thus the universe) was created by the stores proprietors. In the first book the store if about to be demolished so they have to learn new skills (such as.. truck driving!) to escape. They end up living in a quarry, and start to make it into a home. (By doing such things is “mining” potatoes…) But then one day a notice appears saying that the ...

This is the 2nd book in PTerry’s nome trilogy, following on from Truckers which followed the nomes escape from the Arnold Bros. (est. 1905) department store and its imminent demolishment to a safe refuge in a deserted quarry. Taking a step backwards, if you haven’t read the books or other ops nomes are 4 inch high creatures resembling squat sumo wrestlers but who can move so fast that the human eye can not usually see them, although we have racial memories of (g)nomes and sit them in our gardens. The nomes crashed on earth 15,000 years ago and now that mankind has reached the stars are trying to find their way back home. Back to the book ...

The truckers series was created for children not the normal Prattchet readers, but being a avid fan I felt I had to read them and enjoyed them. Dorcas and Grimmato defend their new home and as always they manage to enlist the help of a mechanical friend Jekub The gnomes have been doomed to spend the rest of there lives running away and the story is basically the day to day problems? I feel that the series would make an excellent cartoon series with some strong characters and a story line that lends itself to TV. A good book that kids of all ages will enjoy. ...