Once, in a country far away, there lived a farmer and his wife. They had no children and every day, to lift their spirits on the walk to and from the fields they sang "We'd like a little boy, any size at all. We'd like him little, we'd like him small. We'd love him tiniest of all." Then a miracle happened... This classic Japanese fairy tale tells the story of Issun Bôshi, the tiny son of an old, long childless couple. Format: Hardback.