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Story 02 · Book One

Eleventh Stair

You have to get all the way up to Number Three, and if the eleventh stair squeaks you go back to the bottom and start again.

Pim stands still on the wooden stair just before the worn squeaking tread, one hand lightly on the bannister, spoon held quietly in the other.
The game begins here

Start with a sound.

Listen in The Stairs

The eleventh stair squeaks. It has always squeaked.

The line that comes back

“Squeak, and you're back at the bottom stair.”

This page introduces the story. The complete read-aloud is in Book One, Number Three.