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The Small One
UNITED STATES · 1978

The Small One

Don Bluth
nativity redemption kindness animals faith
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Synopsis

Ordered by his father to sell an old mule called Small One, a Hebrew boy in the ancient Holy Land takes the donkey to the Jerusalem market. Finding no buyers there, the boy is about to give up when he meets a kind man named Joseph, who buys Small One and uses the steed to take his pregnant wife Mary to Bethlehem.

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