

This validation comes in the form of stickers in the shapes of dots and stars. They're all special, of course, but seem to need validation from each other to find any real worth.

However, instead of spelling it out in so many words, Lucado decided to use an ingenious illustration involving little wooden people called Wemmicks. The premise of the book is simple: what's most important is what God thinks. The saddest Wemmick of all who taught me and dozens of other 90's kids that, well, "You are special." Those silly little wooden people who, to my knowledge, have yet to discover any real worth apart from stars and dots and probably to this day know next to nothing about how much their Maker loves them.

My dad would pull out it out and start reading to me the story of a It was a book that I grew up on, and I still remember the moments when In 1997 Max Lucado released a whimsical storybook for children entitled You Are Special.
