<div><I>One Christmas Eve in a far kingdom, the royal family gathered to open presents?which mainly meant watching the prince open his...</i> So begins a children's story about taking, but also giving?about stubbornness, but also a change of heart. The spoiled prince doesn't realize that he's actually bored with all the magnificent gifts he’s given. And he carries a deeper sadness, one that would stay locked away, a secret even from him, if his wise grandmother hadn’t understood that what he really needed was...a stick. <I>It was sturdy, and as long as he was tall. But it was just a stick.</i> And yet this simple gift opens the prince to precious things. This children's picture book explores the power of imagination, the pleasure of doing, and eventually, the heart-soothing, joy-inducing warmth of not only being loved?but loving.</div>