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John & Julia’s Impossible Days

The Sofa Has Set Sail!

John and Julia sail a sofa ship across a knitted blue sea.

The sofa is a ship. The rug is the sea. All aboard.

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Written by J. Ladis & Haley Dell

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John and Julia have a birthday cake to deliver to Hippo. Their make-believe voyage crosses a blue-rug sea toward an armchair island, with a surprising encounter along the way.

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On the living-room floor John places the three-block toy birthday cake on its tray while Julia points across the blue rug toward toy Hippo on the armchair.
Hippo’s birthday cake was ready: three wooden blocks, pink paper icing and a felt candle. John put it on a tray. Julia pointed across the blue rug. “Hippo’s island is over there.”
The sofa becomes a broad cushion ship as the children raise one striped tea-towel sail; Hippo waves a small red square flag from his armchair island.
They climbed aboard the sofa and raised a tea-towel sail. Its cushions became a ship, and the rug rolled into an enormous sea. On his armchair island, Hippo waved a very small flag. “Birthday delivery coming through!”

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