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    612-822-4611

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The Wick of Wit: 20 Tiny Tales to Light Up a Dark Room

The Wick of Wit: 20 Tiny Tales to Light Up a Dark Room

Hiebert, Lindsay

Paperback

General Juvenile FictionReligion

ISBN13: 9798196290640
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 10 2026
Pages: 54
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.14 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A lantern, a boy, and twenty tiny tales that turn wisdom into something a child can carry through a dark room.

When the world feels noisy, foggy, unfair, or a little too big, The Wick of Wit gives children - and the grown-ups who read with them - twenty short, rhyming tales that can be read in five minutes and remembered for years.

Meet Wick-it Will - a curly-haired boy with an orange neckerchief and a lantern that only glows when he says something true. Across twenty tiny adventures, Will outwits a Boomerang Sneer, shares his last crust with the Ghost of Hunger, tames a Fire-Breather with the right diet of words, bows to a beetle wiser than a king, buys a question from a wise old shopkeeper, and learns why a suitcase of stones makes the lightest road home.

Each tiny tale is a little lantern with three doors:

  • The Trick - the upside-down idea hidden inside the story.
  • The Glow - one simple sentence a child can carry like a pocket-lamp.
  • Pass the Flame - a small kind action to do before sunset.
Through twenty lantern-words - including Love, Truth, Courage, Humble, Peace, Hope, Patience, Kindness, Gratitude, and more - children discover character virtues through playful stories, memorable rhymes, original watercolor-style illustrations, Shakespeare-inspired wisdom, and Bible verse inspiration for the curious heart.

Designed for shared reading at breakfast, bedtime, in the classroom, during Sunday school, or anytime a child needs a small lamp for a big feeling:

  • 20 short illustrated chapters - one tale a day, not one binge
  • Verse-style stories children can hear, remember, and recite by week's end
  • A Grown-up Whisper on every page - the teaching note behind each tale
  • Ages 5-10 - perfect for read-aloud, classrooms, homeschool, Sunday school, and family devotions
  • A gentle bridge between classic wisdom, faith inspiration, and everyday action
In these stories, light means wisdom made small enough for a child to hold - a sentence, a choice, a kindness, a brave little action.

Light is not meant to be stared at - it is meant to be carried.

Read one tiny tale at a time, and watch a small lamp teach a dark room to change its mind.

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