Gnomes, Trolls, Pixies, and Goblins- Styles Brainstorm

Topic: My storybook will most likely be about mythical garden/forest creatures from a variety of cultures. I particularly want to focus on the tales involving gnomes, trolls, pixies, fairies, and goblins. I have found some initial sources that might be of use to me, "Rubezahl" about a gnome, "The Pixies Revenge" about pixies, "Troll Turned Cat" about a troll, and I plan to find one about a goblin. There are lots of relevant stories considering I am not limiting myself to a certain area's stories, but going through all of them to find the ones I want to retell will be a long process. I think these initial ones are a great start considering I found a story for every mythical creature I wanted to cover.

Bibliography:
"Rubezahl" from The Brown Fairy Book, by Andrew Lang, (1904)

"The Pixies Revenge" from A Peep at the Pixies, or Legends of the West, by Anna Eliza Bray (1854)

 "The Troll Turned Cat" 

Most of these came from the Celtic area of Sacred Texts, so I think I will do some more searching there.


Possible Styles:
Idea 1- I would incorporate my four dogs into telling the stories of the garden. In my head right now, the dogs would be the ones interacting/battling with the mythical creatures. I could see it as three or four rounds of battle- one against gnomes, one against, trolls, one against fairies, and one against goblins. The stories could be told from an older dog to maybe her puppies. This would put the stories as the older dogs past; maybe her and the three others had to take over the yard from the garden creatures.

Idea 2- The story could be written in a little girls diary. Maybe she watches out her window each day what happens in the yard between her dogs and the mythical things that only she can see in the garden. Or maybe she leaves her barbies in the yard and those are the characters interacting with the garden creatures. She could see them come to life in the yard and could write about it in her diary.

Idea 3-  A little girl could be the one to interact with each of these creatures. And she could tell the story in first person to either her parents or her friends. Maybe the parents would play along but wouldn't believe her because they cant see the creatures like she can.

Idea 4- Bedtime stories told by the creatures themselves. They could be friends with the little girl who lives in the house and each night they could make their way inside to sit in bed with her. They would take turns telling her stories about themselves. They are mean and mischievous to others, but love to tell stories to the girl.

Image taken from "The Fairies Revenge"