Indian in the Cupboard

The Indian in the Cupboard book series is a wonderful series of children’s boos and low fantasy novels. It is written by a bestselling British novelist named Lynne Reid Banks. The series consists of five books in total released between 1980 & 1998. Its first book has the same title as that of the series and was released in 1980. It has illustrations by Brock Cole and Robin Jacques. The novel was adapted into a children’s movie in 1995 having the same name as the book. Piers Sanford was chosen to do the illustrations of the later books. After the immense success of the first volume, Lynne followed it up with 4 sequels. All of them were released in hardcover by the Doubleday Books and Avon Books publication. HarperCollins is the publisher of the paperback editions of the books. The series has been reprinted multiple times in different formats. Children aged nine and above are recommended best suited to read this series and enjoy. Each and every novel of this series revolves around a small boy named Omri. He discovers that the cupboard kept in his room has magical powers. It converts plastic toys kept inside it into real living beings. This new discovery resulted in Omri becoming friends with an eighteenth-century Iroquois chief called Little Bear.