I Saw a Ship a Sailing....

Have you ever read a book and the plot was so alluring you wished you were part of the story? Harry had one of those moment at bedtime. We were reading "I Saw a Ship a Sailing." It's part of an awesome picture book, "If You Love a Nursery Rhyme" that my friend Cathy gave the boy for his second birthday. As you turn the pages, a paper engineering technique (a lot like paper shutters), mysteriously transforms the artwork.

Harry's favorite is the final rhyme, about the sailing ship. As you turn the page, a bounty of comfits and apples (read: candy) are revealed within the decks of the square rigger, attended to by 24 white mice. We've read the book a hundred times, but this time it was just too much. Harry slipped his feet onto the page and tried his best to enter the ship's hold. "Harry get in the boat!" he pleaded.