When I Grow Bigger

Baby Thomas, too young to talk, watches as three older children play in the garden. They want to grow bigger, but to Thomas, they ARE big: they look down on him in fact. At first he's an onlooker of their quarrelsome play which is only suspended when Thomas's dad intervenes. Then he's a victim of their efforts to make him grow. But Thomas is the one having fun when Dad lifts him onto his shoulders where he towers above his playmates. The dialogue, actions and thoughts of infant, children and adults alike are so true to life and the artwork so utterly appealing, four- to six-year-old readers or listeners cannot fail to recognise themselves.