Nell looked at the book, which had flopped itself open again, this time to 
an illustration showing a girl who looked much like Nell, except that she was 
wearing a beautiful flowing dress and had ribbons in her hair. She was sitting 
next to a miniature bed with four children tucked beneath its flowered 
coverlet: a dinosaur, a duck, a bunny, and a baby with purple hair. The girl 
who looked like Nell had a book on her lap. "For some time Nell had been 
putting them to bed without reading to them," the book continued, "but now 
the children were not so tiny anymore, and Nell decided that in order to bring 
them up properly, they must have bedtime stories."