Mama tverdit, chto Les Prokaz ochen' opasen. No Billi manit vso zapretnoye! V lesu on vstrechayet kroshechnykh chelovechkov — knopov. Oni zhivut vnutri derev'yev i nikogda ne spuskayutsya na zemlyu — boyatsya uzhasnogo Zhruna, kotoryy shcholkayet ikh kak semechki. Zhrun i chelovechiny ne proch' otvedat'! Tak chto zhe delat' Billi — mchat'sya domoy ili spasat' knopov ot ognedyshashchego chudishcha? Istoriya pro malen'kikh lesnykh chelovechkov vpervyye vyshla v 1991 godu s tsvetnymi illyustratsiyami Patrika Bensona. Eto byla pervaya i yedinstvennaya detskaya kniga Roal'da Dalya bez Kventina Bleyka — khudozhnika, vsegda rabotavshego v tandeme s avtorom. Illyustratsii Bleyka k posledney knige skazochnika poyavilis' tol'ko 25 let spustya.