Grover

She read it with Grover's voice. Then, after straining her vocal chords, my mom usually lost her voice for a period afterward. (In fact, I'm not sure if my sister and I begged her to read the book because we loved the book or because we loved the after effects. Often, when she came to the end, we'd plead Read it again! Read it again! I see now how cruel we were.)

The book was about Grover not wanting to reach the end of the book because there was a monster at the end of the book! Oh, please, please, please don't turn the page, he'd say.

We'd turn it anyway.