The Small One is a studio album of Deccalite phonograph records by Bing Crosby of a Charles Tazewell story.

The album was released on September 2, 1947[2] and in due course it was ordered by more than 1,500 private schools in the USA.

[3] Crosby researcher Fred Reynolds outlined the story: Crosby repeated The Small One on his Philco shows of December 24, 1947 and December 22, 1948.

[7] "The Small One" first appeared on CD on Jonzo's The Chronological Bing Crosby Vol.

[8] In 1978, Walt Disney Productions produced an animated Christmas short film version called The Small One, directed by Don Bluth (an animator who would end up leaving Disney the following year, due to creative differences), who animated the auction scene for the movie.