Lola is convinced that she is finally tall enough to ride the "Super Dooper Loop the Looper" at the fair, but her older brother Charlie gently tells her that she is still too short, but that there are many good things about being small.
Simple text, vocabulary words, and discussion questions combine with a story about Paul, who seems to be too small for everything, until his brother asks him to play a certain game.
In search of a stolen treasure and his missing grandfather, ten-year-old Arthur travels to the land of the Minimoys, a tribe of tiny people he must save from destruction.
Tom, his friend Robert, and Robert's sister Emma attempt to rescue a strange girl Robert believes is the counterpart of Lorn, a tiny person he met during his own ordeal as a miniature copy of himself.
Mouse, Beatrix and the rest of humankind are shrunk down to six inches after a blue light flashes across the earth, and they must survive in their new place in the food chain as dark, uncivilized forces develop to destroy them all.