Little Bear even admonishes Omri, "You should not do magic - you do not understand!" This is also how the cowboy figure Boone came to life. This also happened to some of Omri's other toys, but he undid the magic when they began clashing with one another. The figure emerged as live human Indian Little Bear, though still only three inches tall. Born of Magic: It was originally a lifeless plastic child's toy, until Omri put him in an old curio cabinet.Aside from the arrow wound Boone receives in the first book, and the musket wound Little Bear has in the second, the massacre of the Indian braves is depicted in, if not graphic detail, at least more than enough realism to make the horror of war hit home, for Omri and Patrick and for the reader. The latter involved more of a prick on Omri's finger. The former pair became Blood Brothers by having their wrists cut and then bound together. Blood Brothers: Little Bear and Boone, and Little Bear and Omri.He becomes a miniature of his human self, with a flesh-and-bone face, but no features. The Blank: In The Key to the Indian, Omri's father is accidentally sent back in time to inhabit a faceless Iroquois Indian corn doll.Big Brother Bully: Both Adiel and Gillon are this to Omri on occasion (though to be fair Omri does his fair share of antagonizing as well- such as when he rages at Gillon for "allowing" his rat to escape when it was clearly a complete accident).A-Team Firing: Horribly averted when the Indians go back to the past with "now-guns"-not understanding the way bullets work, the braves surround their enemies and all shoot at once, and thus end up mostly killing and badly injuring each other.When they confess the truth, although skeptical at first she handles it surprisingly well. Played straight with Tommy but eventually subverted with Matron as she reveals to them she isn't stupid, and the reality of the wounds and the dead are something she cannot deny as fact. All Just a Dream: How the boys convince Tommy and Matron (who actually passes out when she first sees them!) to help them with the injured Little Bear and (in Matron's case) his men.Aerith and Bob: There are the three brothers Omri, Adiel and Gillon, and then there's Omri's friend Patrick (and later Patrick's cousin Emma).The producer is Chris Wallis, and this is an Autolycus production for BBC Radio 4. And like that other story of little people, The Borrowers, this story explores human nature and real moral and ethical issues as Omri realises the power he has over Little Bull. Written by Lynne Reid Banks (who also wrote The L Shaped Room), she brings to it all the seriousness and humanity - and humour - of her adult fiction. And when Patrick finds out, it becomes very difficult indeed. Which is all very exciting, but now he has to find a way of looking after a real human being who, although he is only 3 inches tall, needs to be fed, and wants a horse, and a wife. In the morning he's woken by noises from inside the cupboard - and opening the door, finds the Indian has come to life, and his name is Little Bull. That night Omri puts the Indian in the cupboard for safe keeping, and locks the door. But he's delighted with the old bathroom cupboard given him by his elder brothers Adiel and Gillon. Eleven year old Omri isn't very impressed with the rubbish birthday present from his friend Patrick, a plastic Native American Indian figure.