The Joyfulicity Blog

Each animal that enters the mitten makes the situation more crowded, but also more fun. The tension builds as more and more creatures try to fit into a space that clearly cannot hold them all. There’s a playful sense of anticipation as the reader keeps wondering just how far it will go before something finally gives.

The story begins in a quiet house where a little boy insists there is a dragon in his room. At first, the adults don’t take him seriously at all—they keep brushing it off and confidently repeating that there’s no such thing as a dragon. The twist is that the dragon really is there, and it keeps getting bigger every time it is ignored.