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Omri is taking Little Bear to school in his pocket. WTF? Being a retired adolescent boy, the worst place to keep anything is your pocket. All it takes is for Omri to graze the school bus headrest and LB will be bloody gut squash, or at least, have a dozen broken bones. Regardless, if Little Bro were in my pocket, he'd end up in the washing machine.

Well, Omri is a murderer. Yay! He's feeling the consequences of being a god. He's also learning that Little Bear is a little tyrant: he wants what he wants when he wants it.

That reminded him -- where was the horse? He looked around in a fright. But he soon saw it, trying forlornly to eat the carpet. "I must get it some grass," thought Omri, meanwhile offering it a small piece of stale bread, which it ate gratefully, and then some water in a tin lid. It was odd how the horse was not frightened of him. Perhaps it couldn't see him very well. -- LRB

If you could bring a plastic object to life, who or what would it be? I know who I'd bring to life... and it's a very bad idea.