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Question: What's this story and who wrote it!?
It's a sci-fi about a children's playroom that turns into whatever they want!. But then something goes wrong and the playroom become real, and the parents get caught and die (as far as I remember)!.

I think it's by Ray Bradbury!. Www@QuestionHome@Com


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The story is called "The Veldt"; you are correct - it's by Ray Bradbury!. You can read the whole story here:
http://veddma!.narod!.ru/Ve "George, I wish you'd look at the nursery!."
"What's wrong with it!?"
"I don't know!."
"Well, then!."
"I just want you to look at it, is all, or call a psychologist in to
look at it!."
"What would a psychologist want with a nursery!?"
"You know very well what he'd want!." His wife paused in the middle of
the kitchen and watched the stove busy humming to itself, making supper for
four!.
"It's just that the nursery is different now than it was!."
"All right, let's have a look!."
They walked down the hall of their soundproofed Happylife Home, which
had cost them thirty thousand dollars installed, this house which clothed
and fed and rocked them to sleep and played and sang and was good to them!.
Their approach sensitized a switch somewhere and the nursery light flicked
on when they came within ten feet of it!. Similarly, behind them, in the
halls, lights went on and off as they left them behind, with a soft
automaticity!.
"Well," said George Hadley!.

They stood on the thatched floor of the nursery!. It was forty feet
across by forty feet long and thirty feet high; it had cost half again as
much as the rest of the house!. "But nothing's too good for our children,"
George had said!.!.!.!."
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