To go on an exciting journey, you don’t necessarily have to leave home. Just open a book, and you’re already on the famous Baker Street; after a while—at King’s Cross station—in real modern London, in a city where eleven-year-old Edie Winter lives. If Edie were a little older—say, she’d already turned thirteen—then this amazing story wouldn’t have happened to her. And it’s because nobody older than thirteen sees them…
It all began when Edie found an inconspicuous wooden box on the seat of the subway and, with amazement, discovered that someone was living inside it! Someone very tiny… no bigger than a thimble…