Baby Born Big in the Happy Big Small World

The story traces the life of Acorn who, like all of us when we are little is a massive balloon of a girl floating overhead who catches everyone's attention. As she grows, she comes closer to earth until she is the same size as everyone else, no longer able to fly, discovering that the attention she received must be returned to those who gave life and to those who come after. This dawns on her when one morning she finds her parents in a bowl of cereal, shrunk till almost too small to see, as will happen to all of us in time, disappearing to the naked eye as we age. Acorn has failed and her selfishness to appreciate this basic life truth: we all have to help one another. Mother and father are deposited in each ear so that she will always hear their advice as, grounded, she learns to take care of herself and be a good neighbor and friend.