Thanks and Fear

I bought a best-selling children's book the other day called Bubble Trouble. It has an intricate rhyme that entertains me. Upon first-reading, it proved to be a bit over Josiah's head. He had trouble figuring out the plot. The first question upon turning a page, several times, was "Where is the baby's mother?" We needed to establish that, because, I discovered, this was sort of a scary book about a baby who floats away in a bubble until the townfolk rescue him. At the end, Josiah's first...