A tiny girl takes care of her brother and grandpa while her parents and grandma go on a trip. "Tiny" means just a few inches tall. Bridwell's imaginative ideas of how and where they live should encourage young readers to imagine what they would do. There are other stories, bigger than this one, that deal with similar people and circumstances; e.g., The Borrowers series by Mary Norton and The Littles series by John Peterson. ( )

In this littles type story, the little girl details her daiy life in the garden. She also talks about an adventure she had retrieving an umbrella from a giant person after it got lodged in her dog's foot. ( )