Anyone remember this? I'm off to get it for dh this afternoon.
It's your gentle ensemble comedy of manners with one of the best ever small boys in it - you overhear him every now and then, and he's always earnestly trying to explain how big something is "well, it might be about the size of the end of this teaspoon, well, not quite that, perhaps if you had a bus ticket next to the teaspoon, about that size ..."
Ds does exactly this. When I told him about the boy in the book, he said "Do you think what he was talking about was about the size of a mobile phone, about that size?"