This is an excellent, highly engaging installment in the lovable woodland folk series, with large, detailed illustrations depicting the doings of those same gnomes and their friends: frogs, rabbits, hedgehogs, foxes, and the like. The basic premise of this book is this: the w.f. start to encounter their neighbors, the dragons, in a series of smaller tales, which ultimately lead to the abduction of a young dragon by a treacherous gnome, and the resultant war between the races. this sounds far more grim than it actually is, though, as most the weapons involved shoot water or rotten eggs, and no casualties are sustained. Siege engines are shown, and tanks, but these are usually in the form of a big, dumb animal following a carrot on a string, held by a bunch of smaller critters riding it. The descriptions of the respective armies and accompanying layouts are a thrill for young and old alike, and i promise you won't get through the book without a chuckle.