The Tallest of Smalls

Description

An encouraging message for children: When you feel like you’rethe smallest of smalls, Jesus’ love can make you feel like the tallestof talls. A delightful rhyming story about the Too-Smalls who live in theStiltsville. Every evening a six, the Too-Smalls meet in the squarewhere they hope they’ll be picked to receive stilts to strut aboutabove the stilt-less masses below. They come to see if they matter―ifthey’re awesome, if they’re pretty, if they’re clever, or funny. Ollie,the smallest of too-smalls, pleas to be picked. He wants to be like thehigh-ups of Stiltsville who are proud of their stilts, the ultimatestatus. But once he gets stilts, oh how it hurts when he stumbles andtumbles and loses his stilts. That is . . . until he meets Jesus whochose low over high telling him, "Keep your feet on the ground. Youmatter already.” This book for kids coordinates with Max's trade book, Fearless , releasing in September 2009.