Lulu and the Dog from the Sea by Hilary McKay

Author:Hilary McKay [McKay, Hilary]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4804-1709-0
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
Published: 2013-02-14T17:21:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Monday and Tuesday

On Monday Lulu’s family spent the day exploring the local fort. It had cannons around the walls and a telescope on top of the battlements. With the telescope you could look right over the sand dunes. Lulu looked for a long time while a fidgety line built up behind her, but she did not see the dog from the sea.

A chilly wind blew over the battlements, straight through their fleeces and cold on their skin.

“Let’s go home and make my kite,” said Mellie.

On the box of Mellie’s kite, under, Includes everything needed to build this magnificent kite! it also said, Not suitable for children under the age of 36 months. Underneath this Lulu’s father had written: Or anyone living on a potholey road.

The kite in the kit was plain white plastic. That was so that you could draw your own picture. This was the part that Mellie had looked forward to most. She planned to cover the white plastic with rainbow-colored seagulls.

It was a very big kite. It would take a lot of rainbow seagulls to cover the whole surface.

“Anyone who likes can draw seagulls on my kite,” said Mellie, tipping out felt pens all over the floor.

The problem was, anyone couldn’t.

The pens were all dried up. One after another Mellie pulled off their lids, discovered their ghostly shadows, and flung them away.

“It’s not fair!” she wailed.

Lulu did not think it was fair either. “Brand new pens all dried up!” she exclaimed indignantly.

“I didn’t use them once!” said Mellie sadly. “Well, once, maybe... Or a few times... I’ll never get this kite made. I might as well stop trying.”

Bump, bump, bump went the car through the potholes on an emergency expedition to save Mellie from despair. They bought new pens and cotton candy and a mountain of french fries with chili-cheese sauce. The cotton candy got in their hair and the chili-cheese sauce smelled much nicer than it tasted, but by bedtime a flock of seagulls as bright as flowers blossomed across the kite. And that was another day over.

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