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Tomy Tran, a father of three from Oklahoma, said, “I’ve been to some of these indoor places and it’s more like a jungle gym. Here, my kids will go into the area, pick up the book and actually start reading it as if they’re in the story.”

One of the companies behind its development is Tomy, who created the Transformers toys.

In 2011, she returned home to marry Tomy Thomas in a match arranged by her family.

A cool new take on the original Tomy Waterful games, these handheld, pocket-sized, non-electronic sensory travel games from Seattle’s Sky Castle Toys have floating treasures, glitter and squishy buttons.

The other prose finalists are László Krasznahorkai’s “Spadework for a Palace,” translated from Hungarian by John Batki; B. Jeyamohan’s “Stories of the True,” translated from Tamil by Priyamvada Ramkumar; and Sheela Tomy’s debut novel “Valli,” translated from Malayalam by Jayasree Kalathil.