For a few weeks, I have been telling Zazie this story at night before she goes to bed. She loves it and repeatedly requests for me to tell her a little more about Mother Nature's Button Room. However, it has taken a surprising turn of events and I have no idea how to continue it.
Suggestions?
Each of these events is a story in itself. This is just the cosmological gist:
Each device controls one aspect of nature. Push a button and the autumn leaves change color, another and some baby elephants are born. Pull down a lever labelled "a/c" and the summer breeze begins.
However, like all mechanical devices, somethings things get mixed up.
Like the time that the pipes to the duck eggs and the alligator eggs got switched. Or the time that Mother Nature's naughty niece visited and covered the whole of northeastern Malta with stargazer lillies. It seemed like an improvement at first, but after a few days the stench was something terrible.
Well, it turns out that there is a little door, hidden in a dark corner near the agricultural section, near the maize and soybean buttons, that is locked. And if you lie on the floor and close one eye you can peek through the keyhole. This is the secret door where Mother Nature keeps the rainbows. All we see are the rainbows' shadows. No one know where Mother Nature keeps the key or knows why she locks them up.
This is where I stopped. Any promising suggestions...?
For Halloween, I think I am going to work on a toddler version of Rabelais' "Island of Tools."
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Maybe because as soon as the rainbows are exposed to sunlight (nothing happens if they are let out at night), they become huge and multicolored. But they need the conditions to be just right -- moist air and sunlight. The room she keeps them in must be dark so that they can rest (just like sleeping children) so that on these very special rainy turned to sunny days, they can stretch out. And the key only appears when there is an equal amount of rain and sun on a day.
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