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The Littles

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Hi! My name is Cindy. I am nine years old. I just finished reading a book called The Littles, and it is by John Peterson. The book is about a little family that lives inside the wall of Mr. Bigg's house. They look a lot like humans, but they are small and they have tails. Everyday they go to the kitchen and get some food that are leftovers from Mr. Bigg's dinner. Those in the family are the grandfather, grandmother, Tom the brother, Lucy the sister, mom and dad. One evening Mr.Bigg wanted to go for a vacation, and he wanted to rent his house. For one week a lady named Lizzy and a man named Mr. Newcomb rented Mr. Bigg's house. These people didn't eat much so the Littles wanted them to leave. They wanted Mr. Bigg to come back from his vacation. They had a plan to get rid of these people. The plan was to scare them into thinking that the house had mice. ...

I liked this book because it is a chapter book. I want everyone to read this book. I give this book five stars because it is so good.

I remember enjoying these books years ago. My son who is four has really enjoyed reading chapter books at night. So I bought this one, and he loved it.

The Littles are tiny people with tails. They live in the walls of the home of the Biggs. The Littles use odds and ends that the Biggs no longer need to build an elevator, eat etc.

In this story the Biggs go on vacation and the Littles have new big people living in the home. For three weeks the Newcombs don't take out the garbage and mice come. There is excitement and bravery.

This is an adorable book. We are buying more.

Enjoy.

I purchased this book for my first grader and it was a great start to chapter books. The story is captivating and very immaginative. I would highly recommend this book, and the entire series, for a jumping off point for new readers.

Behind the walls of the George W. Bigg home live the Littles, a family whose tallest member measures six inches. Like the Borrowers (a favorite with me in childhood), the Littles get their living by appropriating whatever they need from the giants whose home their share. ....

Delightful! An exciting story that has plenty of action without being overly frightening. I look forward to reading this one to my small nephew.

I loved reading "The Littles" when I was a child. I am now enjoying them all over again with my 5 year old! He wants to know if they live in our walls too!

This is an exciting story! It has funny describing words. The Littles sneak out into the Biggs kitchen to get what they need and they pay them back by fixing their plumbing. The Littles are really small, only six inches tall, they have tails and a cat came. The cat thinks the Littles are mice! Check it out and you'll find out!

The Littles captured my child's interest when we discovered them when was almost seven years old. He loves their exciting adventures. He started writing (dictating to me) his own stories/adventures about the Littles since they are not being written fast enough for his appetite. At age eight, he still loves reading the Littles books and is now a good enough reader to read them by himself (and he continues to add to the adventures he's creating for them in his own stories). He's always asking if there are any new books on the Littles.

This is a wonderful book about crafty little people. They were a size of the thumb and had a tail. Rats were attacking them. Littles used little knifes that they made to fight them. Mr. Big always wondered why his phone system was working so well. He did not know that the Littles were living in his house. The Littles fixed the phone system. The Biggs went away for vacation for the summer and Newcomes rented the house. The Newcomes were very messy. Rats came into the house. Tom Little decided to play a trick on Newcomes and dressed as a rat. He wanted them to set mouse traps. But the Newcomes decided to bring in a cat. The Littles were very scared and they wanted to get rid of the cat. But Tom became friends with the cat. I loved the book because the Littles were always solving their problems. I would recommend this book to my friends. I will read other books by John Peterson.

The Littles is the first book is a series of exciting stories. The Littles are minature people with tails. They share a house with a human family, the Biggs, but the family doesn't know they are there. But the problem comes when teh Biggs go on vacation. The Newcombs move in but do not take care of the house, so mice move in as well. And then the adventures begin!

"The Littles" always struck me as a pale imitation of "The Borrowers," which I discovered in the sixth grade and shared with my own children. "The Borrowers" are little people who live in the houses of people and "borrow" things. The Borrowers