About This Book
A curious young child interprets the word shorts both as clothing and as electrical faults, and this literal thinking sparks a string of comic household mishaps. Episodes include visits to an older brother's ham radio shack, a spilled drink that reaches a frayed cord, poking with a sewing needle, and a tense cellar moment with a dangling light, each observed and mentally cataloged. Adults respond with bewilderment or alarm while the child's accumulating fragments of experience are woven into a coherent, if naïve, logic about cause and effect, producing gentle humor and a vivid family portrait.
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