I Found a 1950s “Answer and Color-in Book”

One day the children played in the kitchen. in the cellar. in the yard. The yard looked like a meadow. a forest. an island in the sea. The children forgot their mud cakes, swing set, sticks, when a girl taught them cat’s cradles. clay people. folded paper boats. Late afternoon, whispering, they lay in a sandbox. on the sidewalk. in the grass. Each knew the others had a mother. a father. brothers, sisters, dogs. They traded blood oaths that foretold how close. how long. at what cost.