This book has the ability to impart to children the magic and joy there is in the complexity of growing up. It also makes the child's bed a place of comfort and security. The parents are silly yet committed and loving in their search for a solution to Imelda's smallness. Imelda's saddness reaches the children and they empathize with her frustration. The story uses a richness of language that is missing in much of the currently published children's fiction. Reading this story aloud is a pleasure.

One of the best books giving simple advice in a quirky and useful way.

He explains the reasons and the reasoning that goes into good creative writing, a must for all.

Oddly written but so correct about feelings between people, relationships, how things don't quite work out when you plan them, but let your plans go and things will work out.