desperate to get back out in the world and grant people’s wishes?
Carla Scout burst into the room, wet hair gleaming, cheeks pink.
“Buh,” she said, which was her word for book, unless it was her word for ball or, possibly, balloon. “Buh, p’ease.”
She wasn’t even in her pajamas yet, just her diaper and hooded towel. Tess would have to use the promise of books to coax her through putting on her footed sleeper and gathering up her playthings. How long would she be able to bribe her daughter with books? Would they be shunted aside like the Velveteen Rabbit as other newer, shinier toys gained favor? Would her daughter even read The Velveteen Rabbit? William Kemper suddenly seemed less crazy to Tess than the people who managed to live their lives in houses that had no books at all.
“Three tonight,” Tess said. “Pick out three. Only three, Carla Scout. One, two, three. You may have three.”
They read five.
Author’s note: The Book Thing is a very real thing and its hours and policies are as described here. The Children’s Bookstore on 25th Street is my invention, along with all characters.
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Copyright © 2012 by Laura Lippman
cover design by Mauricio Diaz
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Carla Scout burst into the room, wet hair gleaming, cheeks pink.
“Buh,” she said, which was her word for book, unless it was her word for ball or, possibly, balloon. “Buh, p’ease.”
She wasn’t even in her pajamas yet, just her diaper and hooded towel. Tess would have to use the promise of books to coax her through putting on her footed sleeper and gathering up her playthings. How long would she be able to bribe her daughter with books? Would they be shunted aside like the Velveteen Rabbit as other newer, shinier toys gained favor? Would her daughter even read The Velveteen Rabbit? William Kemper suddenly seemed less crazy to Tess than the people who managed to live their lives in houses that had no books at all.
“Three tonight,” Tess said. “Pick out three. Only three, Carla Scout. One, two, three. You may have three.”
They read five.
Author’s note: The Book Thing is a very real thing and its hours and policies are as described here. The Children’s Bookstore on 25th Street is my invention, along with all characters.
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this ebook onscreen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of the publisher.
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, businesses, companies, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Copyright © 2012 by Laura Lippman
cover design by Mauricio Diaz
This 2013 edition distributed by MysteriousPress.com /Open Road Integrated Media
180 Varick Street
New York, NY 10014
mysteriouspress.com
www.openroadmedia.com
BIBLIOMYSTERIES
FROM MYSTERIOUS PRESS.COM
AND OPEN ROAD MEDIA
Available wherever ebooks are sold
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