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The Parable of Shelby the Magnificent: In Which the Windy Woods Campers Learn the Biblical Value of Humility
The Parable of Shelby the Magnificent In Which the Windy Woods Campers Learn the Biblical Value of Humility Author:Michael P. Waite, Sheila Lucas (Illustrator) Shelby the turtle wants to be a magician and after showing a trick to his friend, thinks he's good enough to be world famous! He gets more and more proud as the story goes on. Everyone is going to be in a talent show and he heads to the rehearsal where he pretty much ignores the other acts and just thinks about himself. During the rehearsal,... more » he decides he's too good for that talent show and he's going to have his own talent show (which no one goes to). He gets pretty mad about that. Then he decides he's too good to just wait around for people to show up, so he gets up to leave when he falls off the stage into some thorns! This is the point in the story where he becomes humble. He's stuck in the thorns with nothing to do but think and he realizes that no one came to his show because he was being a Proudy Pants. Then he is freed by his friends, everyone apologizes, and the story ends with him doing magic tricks, but not as a World-Famous magician, just as himself.« less