Under the Sea by Nelly Kazenbroot

Author:Nelly Kazenbroot
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: JUV000000
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
Published: 2005-04-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Sand Dollars and Sand Castles

Troy and Pippa lead the way down to the beach. They look from side to side. The little bay in front of Madame Myfanwy’s house is usually quiet. The public beach is just around the corner. There are lots of people on that beach.

Troy shakes his head. “I can’t see anyone. Can you, Pippa?”

Pippa shakes her head. “No one.”

“It’s all clear,” they call to the robots.

Googol and Googolplex roll out from between the trees. When they reach the soft sand, their wheels spin around and around, and the robots stop moving.

“Oh, dear,” Googol says. His head spins around three times.

“Dear, me,” Googolplex says. “I think we’ll have to retract our super-retractable, self-adhesive wheels.”

Pippa laughs. “Yes, but not for long. The sand out by the ocean is nice and hard.”

“And great for making sand castles!” Troy adds. “We’re lucky the tide is out.”

“Tide? What is this tide?” Googolplex asks.

“It’s how high or how low the sea is,” Troy tells them.

“When the tide is high,” Pippa says, “the ocean comes all the way up to where we are standing now.”

“When the tide is low, the edge of the ocean is somewhere out there,” Troy says, pointing to the beach. “And we get sandbars. That’s where sand dollars live.”

Googol and Googolplex beep excitedly.

“Then that is where we will go!” Googolplex says.

The robots retract their wheels. They take small robot steps through the soft sand onto the sandbars. Their feet leave lovely square footprints in the wet sand. They are almost sorry to put their wheels back down again.

Pippa points out the sand dollars in the sand as they near the ocean.

“The black ones are alive. They have to stay here. But these gray and white ones are the skeletons of dead ones.”

Pippa picks up a lovely gray and white sand dollar. It is sort of round and there are lines on it that look like a flower. It fits perfectly into Pippa’s hand.

“They are very nice,” Googol says. He picks one up out of the sand, and Googolplex finds a couple more.

“I’ll go get our buckets to carry them in,” Troy says.

He runs back to the bottom of Madame Myfanwy’s yard. When he comes back, he is carrying two

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