Thoughts for the Week:

As adults, we often forget what it was like, in childhood, always to be looking up at so much of the world. We looked up at the grownups who controlled so much that happened, and we looked up at the tables where so many interesting things seemed to be. If we climbed up on a chair to get a closer look at those curiosities, towering grownups would most likely put them up somewhere still higher - out of our reach. Having to look up at the world like that all the time must have made us feel small and powerless. How exciting it was when, from a parent's shoulders or some other safe perch, we could look down at things for a change!

Summary of the Week:

Elevators, escalators, exercises, and see-saws are all part of this week about Up and Down. In Negri's Music Shop, a domino expert sets up thousands of dominoes that go down, one by one, in an amazing display. Richard Stoltzman makes his musical notes go up and down on his clarinet. There's even a ride high in the sky, as Mr. McFeely goes up and comes back down in a hot air balloon with Maggie Stewart.

In the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, a hydraulic lift turns Lady Elaine Fairchilde's Museum-Go-Round into a "Museum-Go-Up-And-Down" that won't settle down! (or up!)