LITTLESTORY MAGIC

John & Julia’s Impossible Days

The Floor Is Outer Space!

John and Julia fly a toy rescue ship through sock asteroids toward a stranded astronaut.

One stranded astronaut. Two very small rescuers.

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Written by J. Ladis & Haley Dell

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A tiny light blinks beneath a living-room chair. John and Julia set off through sock asteroids and a sticky planet to bring a stranded astronaut home.

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John lies on the rug to inspect the tiny blinking astronaut stranded inside one wooden stacking ring beneath the chair.
A tiny light blinked beneath the living-room chair. John lay on the rug to look. Their toy astronaut was stranded inside the ring of a wooden stacking toy. “Rescue crew, can you hear me?”
Julia hands out exactly two cardboard helmets as the rug opens into a room-made solar system; the chair and ring become their version of Saturn.
“Loud and clear!” Julia pulled two cardboard helmets from the dressing-up box. The rug stretched into space. The chair became Saturn, and scattered cushions became stepping-stone planets. “Hold on. We’re coming.”

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