Smalls-Hector, Irene

A young girl wants someone to play with her, but the members of her family are all too busy.

As a mother and son explore their neighborhood, they try various ways of walking--from giant steps and reggae steps to crisscross steps and backwards steps.

Determined to be the strawbeater during the corn shucking party, Jess, a small young slave boy, wrestles a bigger, stronger boy for the honor.