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Category:
Children
Publisher: Wasteland Press
Type: Fiction
Pages: 68
Copyright: Nov. 2007
ISBN-13: 9781600471230
This is an adventure story about how the Bigwigs and the Smallbergers meet, get to know each other and learn to be good friends. It's a delightful tale about two different cultures from two different worlds.
The story illustrates, in a fun and colorful way, that when we meet new people, even though they may be different from us, they could end up being our very good friends.
In the story, with the best of intentions, the Bigwigs try to make the Smallbergers be just like them, because the Bigwigs believe that will make the Smallbergers happy.
But the Bigwiggers find that their help was no help at all. They learn, through trial and error, that the Smallbergers, though different, are happy just the way they are.
They all learn to get along and be good friends while retaining their own identities.
And that's a message we, and children of all ages, can take to heart.
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Excerpt
"There was a country at one time.
Bigwigton was its name.
And I will tell the story now
That brought that name to fame . . .
They said,
"Now we must take
Desperate action.
There's no time
To delay
Or retreat.
These fellows
Have problems,
And we have
The cure.
If need be
We must
Take the heat." . . .
Politeness,
Of course,
Is a
Smallberger's creed.
They just didn't
Know
What to say.
The Bigwigs
Were guests,
Yet they'd turned
Into pests,
But couldn't
Just be turned away.
So nobody knew
Just quite what to do
'Til the smallest
Smallberger
Stepped up.
He dried his small eye,
And tried not to cry
And brought out his
Poor small green pup.
"As you surely can tell,"
(He'd started so well.)
"My dog
Is now green,
And not blue.
That might seem
Just grand but you
Must understand,
Everyone is
Not
Just like you."
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