anthony and his wife had gone to ikea and picked out all the things i wished i was still small enough to fit in or enjoy : the single bed with the arched canopy over the head , lamps shaped like ladybugs stuck to the walls , a tiny pang chair with its bentwood frame , and a bookshelf , only a third full of anything but stuffed toys and assorted child-junk ( scraps of paper covered in crayon scrawl , pieces of string , rocks , bouncy balls , disembodied doll parts ) .