The Indian in the Cupboard is the First of Five Gripping Books About Omri and His Plastic North American Indian -- Little Bull -- Who Comes Alive When Omri Puts Him in a Cupboard for Omri, It is a Dream Come True When the Plastic American Indian He Locks Into the Old Cupboard Comes to Life. Little Bull is Everything an Indian Brave Should Be -- Proud, Fearless and Defiant. but Being in Charge of a Real, Live, Human Being is a Heavy Responsibility, As Omri Soon Discovers. and When His Best Friend, Patrick, is Let in on the Secret, He Soon Realises That Life-Changing Decisions Lie Ahead.