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Here's
a cautionary holiday tale about a little boy named Roland
who learns an important lesson about the size of the box a
gift comes in. On Christmas morning, Roland races downstairs
only to find a small, wrapped box under the tree. "It
was the smallest gift he had ever seen. Had he waited the
whole year for this tiny gift? Roland closed his eyes and
hoped and wished as hard as he could for a BIGGER gift."
This seems to work, but the little boy is never happy with
the size of the "new" gift and the process continues
until he conjures a gift bigger than his house. Now the story
gets a little bizarre and when he opens the really big box,
Roland discovers a real rocket ship. Determined to search
the universe for an even bigger gift, Roland suddenly realizes
he is moving out into space and his home planet, as it recedes,
is getting smaller and smaller.
"Roland never thought he'd want something so small so
badly."
Now what's the greedy little boy going to do? I'll let you
read this amusing picture book to discover how he reverses
this situation and, in the process, learns an important lesson.
At a time of the year when it is easy to get caught up in
buying things and measuring how much we are loved or appreciated
by the number or size of the presents we receive, this little
book reminds us that some of the best gifts come in very small
boxes!
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