Yes, this is a valid interpretation!

Through details in the image. The room is visually appealing with a warm fire burning and tea and cookies to eat. The children sit comfortably on oversize cushions and listen to the thrilling stories.

Through color. The room is filled with warm colors, reds, oranges and browns. Warm colors evoke happy, cheerful responses.

Through style. The illustrator paints in a naïve style, presenting the essence and appearance of objects and scenes out of her own experience. Her mother-in-law is quoted as saying, "She works in the room where the family loves to gather…. There is no separation of her creative life from her everyday domestic activity. That is perhaps because she lives as creatively as she works. The children who run and dance across the pages run and dance across her life."(Something About the Author, Vol.59) She paints the people and places she knows best and you can feel her affection for the people and things in her work.

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