Joseph Kaye is left home alone while his father picks up his mother. Before he leaves, he tells Joseph that things are "going to change." At a quarter past ten, Joseph notices that the teakettle slowly metamorphoses into a cat; a slipper becomes a bird. The bathroom sink takes on human qualities: a pants leg, lips, nose. And so it continues throughout the house and the yard where the garden hose becomes an elephant's trunk and Joseph's bicycle wheel becomes an apple. Finally Joseph retreats to the darkness of his room until his parents appear--with his new baby sister.
对于一个孩子来说，家中新生儿的降临，是一个很大的改变。安东尼·布朗是最具有独立原创精神的童书作家之一，孩子们十分喜爱他所描绘的奇异画面……这些画面里还蕴藏着非同寻常的智慧。