Lenny and her younger brother Davey live with their Mum who works two jobs to support them all and there’s not much joy – until Mum wins a subscription to Burrell’s Build-It-At-Home Encyclopedia series, which has ants and amphibians and beetles and eagles and thousands of other amazing things and the kids are enchanted (and so was I). But Davey is a very tall child, and he won’t stop growing – so as their horizons expand through all their newfound knowledge, their world contracts into a mess of worry.
