The little girl faces a dilemma. Is she too big or too little? Mum says she's big enough to climb the stairs by herself, and too big to eat with her fingers, but too little to chew gum; the boy downstairs says she's too little to play with him, and the shopkeeper says she's a big girl for helping her mum. It's all very confusing, but when she complains to mum, mum says she is just the right size and that she loves her just the way she is. The expressive chalk illustrations show the little girl in different sizes - very tiny when she's being told she is too little, and very large when she is being told what a big girl she is. Translated from German by J. Alison James.