“Perfect!” says Googol.
“Perfect!” says Googolplex.
Troy hangs his necklace around Googolplex’s neck.
“Now you have two items to take back to your Sunship,” Troy says.
“No, they have three,” Pippa says. She reaches into her pocket for another ball of yarn from Aunt Sara’s scrap box.
This yarn is bright blue. The robots like it just as much as the red wool they used up to fix Farmer Ben’s fences.
“Come back soon!” Troy and Pippa tell the robots before they leave.
“We will!” the robots promise. “And next time we’ll go looking for coconuts!”
After the robots have flown away, Pippa takes off her prism necklace and hangs it around Troy’s neck.
“You can share mine,” she tells him.
Pippa and Troy’s dad comes on Saturday to take them home.
Aunt Sara follows them to their car with a painting wrapped in brown paper.
“Just a little something to remember me by,” Aunt Sara tells them.
Once they are home, Mr. Sinclair helps Troy and Pippa unwrap the painting. He scratches his head a bit when he sees it.
“Robots, cows and rainbows? That’s not Sara’s usual style,” he says.
“Maybe not, but they’re our style!” Troy tells him.
Pippa nods and smiles. The painting is going to be a great thing to have on their wall. She knows that they won’t miss Googol and Googolplex quite so much now that they have a picture of their redheaded friends to look at every single day.
Nelly Kazenbroot is a Nanaimo writer who created small Lego characters many years ago and named them Googol and Googolplex. Now those characters have come to earth three times in Nelly’s books.
Nelly Kazenbroot created the interior illustrations for Over the Rainbow with Googol and Googolplex in pencil. Laura Watson created the cover illustration in acrylic. Laura lives in Toronto, Ontario, with her husband.
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