Possible Clues:

• Not much of a crow from this
• He could be a cocky little fellow
• Prohibition on headgear for fowl
• Where a little crow comes from
• A little bird tells me that's the way to forbid turning the met over
• It takes a little bird to forbid the overturning of the rug
• It's little enough to forbid the mat to be turned over
• Big name in paperback publishing
• It sounds a little foul to forbid the rug to be turned over.
• Sort of a mini man with a bat?