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Here and Now Story Book

THE ROOM WITH THE WINDOW LOOKING OUT ON THE GARDEN

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I know a yellow room With great big sliding doors And a window on the side Looking out upon a garden. There’s a balcony above With a bench for carpenters With planes and saws and hammers, Bang! bang! with nails and hammers. There are hooks beneath the stairs To hang up hats and coats, And nearby there’s a sink With everybody’s cup. There’s a rope and there’s a slide Zzzip! but there’s a slide. There are shelves and shelves and shelves With colored silk and beads, With paper and with crayons, And a great big crock with clay. And the’re blocks and blocks and blocks And blocks and blocks and blocks And the’re horses there and wagons And cows and dogs and sheep, And men and women, boys and girls With clothes upon them too. And then the’re cars to make a train With engine and caboose.[B] And the’re lots of little tables In this yellow, yellow room For boys and girls to sit at And play with all those things. And there’s a great big floor In this yellow, yellow room For boys and girls to sit on And play with all those things. And there is lots of sunshine In this yellow, yellow room For boys and girls to sit in And play with all those things.

THE MANY-HORSE STABLE

All the material for this story was supplied by a three-year-old. The pattern was added. An older child would not be content with so sketchy an account. But it seems to compass a three-year-old’s most significant associations with a stable. The title is one in actual use by a four-year-old class.

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