The moral of this story is good things come to those who wait.  A big surprise I know.  This book has the usual Boys Town formula.  There is a problem and a child reacts.  The child is given a lesson, and that lesson is repeated at least 3 times (in this book 5), ways to deal with that problem are given, and the kid wins in the end.  This time the problem is having patience. It even has a catchy little rhyme to remember why patience is important.  Plus there is a page that an older character used to give the definition of patience to the young protagonist.  Overall the book does work.  It does what it sets out to do.  However, that doesn’t make it good.  It feels like a book told in sunday school, or preschool.  The entire point is the lesson, not the story.  Which makes me a bit sad since this book could have been so much more.  The character is a repeat and they are very likeable, if only the book would give that a chance to grow.