Kidstuff: toys, play, the small universe of rules children invent to govern sandcastles and secret forts. Kidstuff marks a scale and a mode of being—imaginative, improvisational, careless about consequences. It remembers a time when seriousness was optional and transformation literal: a stick was a sword, a puddle an ocean, an empty cardboard box a spaceship. Kidstuff anchors the phrase in play and memory. It makes Fogbank Sassie not simply a mood but a private mythology.
