Down the Chimney with Googol and Googolplex

Nelly Kazenbroot

Description

Googol and Googolplex are on a mission to learn about Earth.

The alien robot duo begin by collecting a number of items including a blackbirdís song, snowballs and a chocolate bar. Pippa and Troy are happy to help, especially when they get to ride to the North Pole in a spaceship. But when they return, Martin, the bully next door, sees something that he shouldn't.

Sujets

• Imaginaire
• Juvenilee Fiction

Informations

• Publié par: Orca Book Publishers
• Date de parution: 01 avril 2004
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781554696079
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

Extrait

Down the Chimney with Googol and Googolplex
Nelly Kazenbroot
Text copyright 2004 Nelly Kazenbroot
Interior illustrations copyright 2004 Nelly Kazenbroot
Cover Illustration copyright @ 2004 Laura Watson
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without permission in writing from the publisher.
National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Kazenbroot, Nelly, 1960- Down the chimney with Googol and Googolplex / Nelly Kazenbroot.
(Orca echoes)
ISBN 1-55143-290-0
I. Title. II. Series.
PS8571.A965D69 2004 jC813 .54 C2004-900640-1
Library of Congress Control Number 2004100823
Summary : What are two little alien robots and their new friends Pippa and Troy to do when the neighborhood bully tries to interfere with their scavenger hunt?
Teachers guide available from Orca Book Publishers.
Orca Book Publishers gratefully acknowledges the support of its publishing program provided by the following agencies: the Department of Canadian Heritage, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the British Columbia Arts Council.
Design by Lynn O Rourke Printed and bound in Canada
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To my husband, Stephen, and our two space aliens, Izabel and Sebastian. -N.K.
Chapter One Scavenger Hunt
Googol and Googolplex have circled the earth three times in their spaceship. They come from a place with lots of corners and edges and the round earth confuses them. There seems to be no end or beginning to it.
We must land, Googol tells Googolplex.
Yes. But where? Googolplex asks.
Googolplex spins his head around three times as he looks out all the windows of their spaceship.
How about on top of that big red house? Googolplex says.
It is a very nice house with lots of square windows and a triangular roof.
Perfect, Googol answers. He steers their spaceship towards the house and lands on the peak of the roof.
Perfect, says Googolplex. He rolls out of the spaceship on his super-retractable self-adhesive wheels. Then he rolls right along the peak of the roof until he is next to the chimney. This must be the back door.
Googol pulls himself up on top of the chimney and stares down the square hole. It is just the right shape and size for a square-headed robot.
Perfect, says Googol. Let s go in.
At the other end of the chimney is the Sinclairs family room. Pippa and Troy Sinclair are sitting in this room, arguing about which show they should watch on TV. Pippa is five and she likes to watch cartoons. Troy is eight and he likes to watch cooking shows and sports. It is difficult for them to agree on a show. But it is not difficult for them to agree that they can hear something coming down their chimney.
Googol and Googolplex roll out of the fireplace onto the carpet. The corners of their square red heads, square blue shoulders and triangular yellow toes are covered in soot.
Pippa claps her hands together. Santa s helpers!
Don t be silly, Pippa. It s not Christmastime, Troy tells her. They re Martians!
Googol s head spins around three times, and Googolplex bleeps and blurps noisily.
We are not Martians! We are Googol and Googolplex, Googol says.
We are looking for snow, Googolplex says.
Pippa and Troy look at each other. Snow!
It s almost summer! Troy says. There s no snow around here at this time of year!
Oh, dear. Googol gives three sad beeps.
Dear me, Googolplex says. Maybe this list of ours isn t going to be so easy to fill, after all.
What list? Troy asks.

There is a whirring sound inside of Googolplex. A bunch of lights flash on his stomach, and then a long piece of paper slides out of his mouth.
Troy grabs this list and begins to read it.
Six snowballs, four sand dollars, a tutu, the song of a blackbird, two peacock feathers, a chocolate bar, all the colors of the rainbow.