Ella is a tiny mouse with a very big imagination. Every time she asks her older brothers to let her play with them, they refuse. "You'd be scared" or "You're too small," "You can't even climb," say Joe, Jack and Jim. So Ella has no choice by play alone and so she makes the best of it by making up all sorts of games. She finds a cat whisker and pretends she's tamed a wild rainbow cat. She spies a dandelion and imagines she's tickling an elephant with it until he sneezes. She picks up a stone and pretends it's the sore tooth she pulls from a dragon's mouth. Soon, her brothers realize that Ella 's not too scared, too small or too unable to do anything, and that she plays the best games of all. Soon they're all playing her newest game - Captain Ella and her brave pirate crew - and all's well with the family that 's learned to play together. Anyone who's ever felt left out will rejoice in Ella's independence, self-sufficiency, and ultimate victory in just doing things her own way.

My son is almost 2 and this is one of his favorite books (and mine too!). The words are put together so eloquently and the amazingly beautiful illustrations make it the complete package.
The book really captures the love between a mother and her child.

To be honest, the reason I bought this book was it came with a small pair of gardening gloves, which my tiny gardening apprentice (aged 5) could don when he "helped" in the garden.

Then I had a look at the book, and it is good. It has some good basic growing thing projects for kids - eg planting a window box, growing a runner bean in a jar.

Good for parents to give them ideas and to read with kids- I don't really think the age group that would be interested in these activities would read it independently!

Beautiful illustrations in the sharp photographic house-style of Dorling Kindersley.