Wallace Hoskins, the boy who grew down

By Cynthia Zarin

Subjects: Growth, Families, Size, Fiction, Stature, Juvenile fiction, Family life

Description: Small for his age, Wallace always wears a fireman's hat so he won't be lost in a crowd, but when his legs start growing out of proportion to his body, his mother is told by old Nanny Heppleweather that the hat must come off.