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Could It Happen to Anyone?

An odd little story:  a kid’s in a store where he’s not supposed to touch anything, so he pretends to be a silkworm, crawling around on the floor to pretend he’s in a cocoon; and then he accidentally breaks a bunch of figurines, getting a bump on his head in the process; he gets in trouble for breaking the stuff because no one believes that he didn’t touch them, an no one pays attention to his bump; later that night he overhears his mom break a vase after he’s supposed to be in bead, and his dad tells her not to worry because it could happen to anyone; then the kid dreams that the figurines all tell him, “It could happen to anyone,” and put ice on his bump.  It seems like the stories this publisher puts out are all trying very hard to make a point, but they never really seem to hit the mark, or to make the reader care.  Maybe they’re losing something in translation, as I believe they were all originally published in other languages.