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The Gammage Cup
''The Gammage Cup'' is a children's book by Carol Kendall. It was first published in 1959 in the United Kingdom as ''The Minnipins'' and in the United States as The Gammage Cup. It was later republished by Scholastic in November 1991 and by Harcourt in 2000. It tells the story of a race of little people called the Minnipins who, despite inner divisions, must unite to defend their village and the valley in which they live against an evil race of humanoid creatures called the Mushrooms or Hairless Ones. The sequel, ''The Whisper of Glocken'', was published in 1965.
Themes in the book include conformity and individualism. The book also includes several references to the real world including the poem Mary Had a Little Lamb and several common abbreviations such as ltd., co., bros., etc. It was highly praised and became a Newbery Honor book and an ALA Notable Children's Book. Audiobook and cartoon versions of the book were also created.
==Background and publication history==
Caroll Kendall became interested in writing for children when her first novel ''The Black Seven'' was published in 1946. She enjoyed writing about children and eventually decided to write children's stories. Of her first forays into fantasy writing she says, "I thought I didn't know enough to write fantasy, and then suddenly I had a theme to work on and gradually the characters became real". Kendall's main character Muggles was inspired by a friend who often joked about being in a muddle.〔 an article in ''Child Life'' inspired her to write about the dangers of conformity. She said:
It was about a costume party, and went something like this: 'Everybody' was having costume birthday parties that yearit was the very latest fad and the mothers met in protest to plan an end to their children's obsessive copy-catism. When the day of the party finally came and the children began to arrive at the birthday house, they found that their secret costumes were exactly like all the other secret costumes. They were a party of sheep.〔
''The Gammage Cup'' was illustrated by Erik Blegvad and was first published in 1959 by Harcourt Brace in New York. The copyright on the book expired and was renewed in 1987. It was later published by Scholastic in 1991 and then by Harcourt in 2000 with cover art by Tim and Greg Hildebrandt. The book was also published in the United Kingdom under the title of ''The Minnipins''.〔(''The Minnipins'' on amazon.com )〕 Its sequel ''The Whisper of Glocken'' was published in 1965.
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