An Invitation for Teddy Teddy lived in a medium-sized apartment building near Riverside Drive in New York City with his parents and his big sister Nora Nora was a real busybody talking to strangers on the elevator making new friends and planning the games that she and Teddy would play Teddy liked having a big sister She had good ideas and she
taught him many things Teddy was different from Nora He was shy That’s just the way he is said Mommy shrugging her shoulders He’ll outgrow it said Daddy He’s silly said Nora She wasn’t shy at all Still Nora was understanding and held Teddy’s hand when they went visiting new people or when they went to the dentist’s office for a checkup When he was with old friends like their neighbor Mrs Wurmbrand who was over eighty years old or Russell who lived on the second floor and was four years old Teddy wasn’t shy at all Sometimes he even made so much noise and talked so much that everyone including Teddy forgot that he was ever the least bit shy
When Teddy was only four years old his mother had made him a Superman cape to wear on Halloween Now even though Teddy was five years old and it wasn’t Halloween he still liked to wear his cape around their apartment Unlike pants which became too short or shoes which became too tight the cape still fit him fine Teddy liked to run through the hallway of the apartment with the red cape flying behind him as he shouted superman superman Then he felt bigger and stronger and smarter than Nora even if he wasn’t When they played pretending games Teddy would often change them So sometimes they played Snow White and Superman or Goldilocks and Super man And even when they were playing
