Can I Sit in the Middle?

This read-together board book is a snowballing narrative of animal chaos that culminates in story time under a blanket tent.

Everyone''s on the sofa to share a book: zebra, cat, child, lion. "Wait!" says zebra, "Stork isn''t here yet!" Then cat needs a cushion, hamster''s missing, someone''s sitting on lion''s tail, fish wants to be in the middle . . . . NOW they''ll be able to start—won''t they?

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