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Story 04 · Book One

Six Flights

You stamp a word out with your feet going up the stairs, and you win if you can make the stairs say the very same word coming down.

Pim stands on the wooden landing facing the returning flight of stairs, listening to the difference between going up and coming down.
The game begins here

Start with a sound.

Listen in The Stairs

The stairs turn the same way going up and going down, which is why coming down feels wrong.

The line that comes back

“Stamp it going up. Catch it coming down.”

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