About the Company

My Gnome on the Roam ®  is a premium brand of educational toys and experiences for boys and girls ages 3-103 years old. My Gnome on the Roams’ ®  goal is building creative family adventures in as little as 30 minutes a week. A 2015 start-up out of Nashville, TN, the Founder Anne Armstrong has taught gifted and talented students as a public middle school teacher of 20 years.

“As a busy working mom, I wanted to create more meaningful, creative experiences with my son but struggled with what many families do these days … not enough time. I was constantly feeling guilty as the days and weeks turned to months and years, so I created a line of products to meet the needs of both education and family fun in under 30 minutes a week.”

The company’s products include the best-selling published children’s book ‘My Gnome on the Roam ® ’ available through Amazon.com, the ‘Time to Roam’ app with daily inspiration and activities in under 15 minutes a day available in all app stores and educational toys including their signature gnome Gustav that kids artistically design, story book, a high quality journal to write about their adventures and a suitcase or backpack.

By inspiring a love of reading, writing and exploration, My Gnome on the Roam ® hopes to help children find their voice while creating genuine moments of family engagement, making the world a better place, one memory at a time.

About the Founder

Anne Armstrong is the Founder of My Gnome on the Roam ® educational toys which inspire a love of reading, writing and adventure for kids, families, students and educators across the globe.

After 20 years of teaching gifted and talented students, Anne took on the role of mom entrepreneur to share her formula of small pockets of time + a simple idea for an adventure = deeper family connections in as little as 30 minutes a week.

A published best-selling children’s author of the book “My Gnome on the Roam ®,” Anne strives to live by a phrase coined by her brilliant students who refer to her as the Field Trip Queen: ‘Make Your Life a Book Worth Reading.’

She holds a Master’s and Ed. Specialist degree in gifted education and has been featured on NPR, Huffington Post, Treehugger.com, and the New York Times.

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