Bored with being knee-high to all the world, Nina wishes extra hard to grow and suddenly finds herself grown quite big, with all the grown-ups knee-high to her.
John Wellington "Jack" Kent (1920 – 1985) was an American cartoonist and prolific author-illustrator of children's books. He is perhaps best known as the creator of the comic strip King Aroo. In addition to his own books, he illustrated more than twenty books by other authors.