Lauren Child tells the familiar tale of a less-than-welcome sibling
with subtlety, insight, affection, and humor.
Elmore Green starts life as an only child, as many children do. He has a
room to himself, where he can line up his precious things and nobody
will move them one inch. But one day everything changes. When the new
small person comes along, it seems that everybody might like it a bit
more than they like Elmore Green. And when the small person knocks over
Elmore's things and even licks his jelly-bean collection, Elmore's
parents say that he can't be angry because the small person is only
small. Elmore wants the small person to go back to wherever it came
from. Then, one night, everything changes. . . . In her signature visual
style, Lauren Child gets to the heart of a child's evolving emotions
about becoming a big brother or sister.