L & E Little Hand For grown-ups

Who lives here

The people you meet in every book.

  • Lea

    Lea

    Lea asks the question that starts every book, and works the answer out herself by the end. She is curious rather than cute, and almost never standing still.

  • Max

    Max

    Lea's little brother. He copies whatever she is doing, badly, half a beat behind. One joke a page, and never a word of dialogue.

  • Mummy

    Mummy

    There is a different mummy in every book - a nurse, a teacher, a vet, a bookkeeper. She is the one Lea follows to work.

  • Daddy

    Daddy

    And a different daddy - a firefighter, a farmer, a mechanic, a pilot. Whichever one it is, he comes home at the end.

  • Teddy

    Teddy

    Lea's bear. He is examined, bandaged, taught, fed pretend medicine and taken everywhere.

  • Grandma

    Grandma

    Turns up with biscuits and stays for the story.

  • Grandpa

    Grandpa

    Can mend most things, slowly, while explaining how.