Barbara is big. She has big hands and big feet and she is taller and weighs more than any of her friends. She is so big that normal-kid running shoes don't fit. Learning how Barbara comes to accept herself and to like how she looks will be fun and instructive for young readers.

Sharon Liddell is a sometime teacher, sometime librarian and full-time writer of stories for young people. She loves storytelling and lives with her family in Smooth Rock Falls, Ontario.