Sydney Taylor

Absolutely.

And actually, very likely, Sydney Taylor, when she wrote this, did.

Yeah, almost certainly.

And I definitely think that there's a cinematic quality to Ella's daydream, where she's absolutely kind of picturing the girl, picturing Charlie, and like, she's now eclipsed herself from this dream, right? She's taken herself out of the picture, because she knows that it's not even hers to dream about.

And certainly Playland would fit that.

I mean, Playland literally just implies a place you go to play.

So because there is an actual Playland in the New York area, which I would kind of guess maybe Sydney Taylor took her daughter Jo to see it.

We don't know that that is is in her brain when she's writing this.