Timmi is a little girl who, like many children her age, lives on the edge of fantasy and reality. Her life is full of tangles: her mother expects her to go to school even though she's a raja … who ever heard of kings going to school? Her imaginary friend Idliamma eats up all her idlis but everyone thinks Timmi ate them. And why can't people understand that if you have a giant for a friend you can get him to lift the roof to let the

rain in? The heartwarming, humorous stories in this book deal subtly with ideas of family and identity