The dance of life — one step forward, one step back. Whether they lead or follow, the characters from these twelve tiny tales will dance through your heart. Will innocent Dulcie be caught in a seedy speakeasy? Can ambitious Kate get the attention she desires? Does swing dancing always lead to romancing? If you like stories you can read before your coffee goes cold, you'll love this flash fiction collection.

Vinney is frustrated about being one of the smallest children at school, but when he takes his mother's advice and thinks big for a day, he discovers that there are advantages to being small.

Cloudette, the littlest cloud, finds a way to do something big and important as the other clouds do.

Too small to work in Santa's workshops, Oliver searches for a special job he can do at the North Pole.

A young boy, bothered by his size, thinks that the super squirt gun he buys will transform him from "Squirt" into "Splat Master."

The shortest kid in the second grade, James Moody, also known as Stink, learns all about the shortest president of the United States, James Madison, when they celebrate Presidents' Day at school. Every morning, Judy Moody measures Stink and it's always the same: three feet, eight inches tall. Stink feels like even the class newt is growing faster than he is. Then, one day, the ruler reads-can it be?-three feet, seven and three quarters inches! Is...

On their daring trip to Valhalla, three Vikings, even the littlest, use their skills in different ways.

As the holiday approaches and all the larger trees on the lot are chosen, the Littlest Tree becomes resigned to not finding a home for Christmas.

Troto is a happy little car who likes to go places. One day after a long drive, he arrives in Cactusville, where he meets some big trucks. But when those big trucks laugh at how small Troto is, Troto doesn't feel very happy anymore, so he challenges them to a race to show them just what a little car can do. After Troto wins the race, the trucks apologize, and little Troto drives off into the sunset, casting a big shadow.

The friendship between Cork, a muskrat, and Fuzz, a possum, is in trouble when Cork decides that since he is older, he has to be taller than Fuzz.