Hardcover
(Knopf Books for Young Readers, Feb. 27, 1991)
As he waits at home for his parents to return, a young boy ponders his father's remark "Things are going to change around here" and begins to imagine all kinds of changes in the world around him
After his father tells him that things will change when mother comes home from the hospital, Joseph notices that the tea kettle has become a cat and that the armchair has been transformed into a gorilla as he wonders what his father means.