Small has just come downstairs in tears because “there is no 19th storey and no Miss Zarves”. Disregard the fact that he was supposed to turn off his light and stop reading 2 1/2 hours ago and join with me in trying to work out why this is a problem. He was unphased by the teacher turning children to apples in the first chapter (apparently this was alright because the teacher was an alien, I don’t remember that little detail, but it was how he rationalised it) but something about the lack of the 19th floor really upset him.
I’ve no idea why. I talked to him about the fact that there was a 19th floor – if you counted them up you wouldn’t skip 19, it was just the labelling that was out. That didn’t seem to help at all. He was really worried about Miss Zarves as well – something in this particular little story really offended his world view. We chatted for a few minutes and managed to calm him down and I took him back to bed and tucked him in.
He’s read about half the book it appeared from where his bookmark (a Little Miss book 🙄 ) was. That’s not bad going in 2 1/2 to 3 hours. I think I might have to borrow it and read ahead – I’m really pleased that I had read some of it last night or I wouldn’t have had a clue what he was talking about! – not that I would necessarily spot anything that might upset him as I still don’t quite know why the missing 19th storey upset him either.
Very odd.
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