Here’s the link to the actual room, bypassing the barely-article.
Imagine being a kid in a family that stays in this room. Your mom tells you “bedtime” and you go lay in bed as she gets a green book to read before bed. Each page she reads she points to the page and something in the room that matches. As sleep pushes against your eyelids the realization that the book and room are the same. Exactly the same. And you fall asleep in the story. (Or are jolted awake with the realization that reality might be a lie or deliberately decorated, depending on what kind of kid you are).
Aaaaaand it’s fully booked.
I could never get the hang of reading that book aloud. It seems like it should have a rhythm to it, then it just doesn’t. I had to turbo the the “jumping-over-the-moon” bit, to fit the rhythm I established on the first couple pages.
The trick is to slow down and pause between the shorter bits. “In the great green room - there was a telephone - and a red balloon - and a picture of - a cow jumping over the moon”
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When the story mentions something in the room, pause to point at it.
