The Gammage Cup

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The Gammage Cup is a children's book by Carol Kendall about the "Minnipins" from the village of Slipper on the Water. It is a Newbery Honor book and an ALA Notable Children's Book. It was first published in 1959.

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Minipins of Slipper-on-the-Water is one of twelve villages of the Minnipins in the Land Between the Mountains. In the beginning of the story, Slipper-on-the-Water is described as "special", because it is home to the Periods, descendants of Fooley the Balloonist. These people's names are actually common abbreviations used in our world, such as Ltd., Etc., Co. and Geo.. They hold all the high offices in Slipper-on-the-Water, and have a "Council of Periods" which rules the village. Muggles is a somewhat simple-minded candymaker who also runs the Fooley Museum, which contains the selection of objects brought back from the Land Beyond the Mountains by Fooley. One night, she wakes up and sees what she at first thinks is the sunrise, but is actually fires on the Sunset Mountains. Gummy, a carefree poet, owns a house up the Little Trickle, which feeds into the Watercress River on which all the villages of the Land Between the Mountains are located. Gummy, along with Walter the Earl and Curley Green, form "Oh, them," three Minnipins who shun the tradition-based existence of the Minnipins and do things such as wear different-colored cloaks and have different color doors.