If you were ever looking for a book about great adventures and a constant turn of events, “The Indian in the Cupboard” by Lynne Banks would be it. This is a fictional story of a young boy who brings to life a plastic indian through a magic cupboard. Omri (the main character) faces a big responsibility in taking care for this little man. Throughout the book Omri meets new plastic toys such as Boone the cowboy and Tommy Adkins the World War two medic. Banks uses her vivid imagination to keep the book quickly moving and full of excitement. Banks’ story of plastic indians and cowboys coming to life displays her excellent writing ability, the most impressive point in this book was the attitude and amazingly life-like personality of the little toy men.
The story takes place in England in the mid 1980’s. Banks’
There are a lot of complications that face Omri throughout the story. Banks makes it very easy to see that taking care of this plastic indian is a great deal of responsibility. At one point the indian desires to go out and hunt so Omri takes the indian out with a horse that was put into the cupboard. On the ride back to Omri’s room in a lego box the indian is injured from the horse kicking him. Omri brings a toy medic to life named Tommy Adkins. Tommy is a medic from World War two. It’s very exciting to read about these different characters because they all come from real lives. When they come to life through the cupboard it snatches them from their lives and brings them into Omri’s world. Other characters Omri brings to life include a warrior, probably from some medieval time, and an indian chief.
Lynne Banks wrote a very lively and adventurous tale in
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