Frank Einstein and the Space-Time Zipper (Frank Einstein series #6) by Jon Scieszka

Author:Jon Scieszka
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: ABRAMS
Published: 2018-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

The entire world stretches out endlessly, one enormous soft cushion.

Warm sunlight slants down.

Igor rests his head on his front paws and purrs. No one calls, “Come here, kitty.”

No one shoos him off the table.

No one steps on his tail.

Igor stretches.

He arches his back.

He moves to a new spot, even better, even more comfortable than the last.

Igor curls into a contented ball.

And purrs. And purrs. . .

A very small man in coveralls, a white helmet labeled INSPECTOR, and a very large moustache strolls down Pine Street with his hands deep in his coverall pockets.

A stylish woman with long blond hair, walking her little dog, approaches. She tugs on the leash, “Come on, Edith.”

The moustachioed man turns and pretends to be studying the window display of Big Joey’s Plumbing & Heating Supply.

The woman and her dog walk past, turn the corner, and disappear.

The man resumes his slow stroll. He saunters past the Fix It! repair shop . . . then suddenly ducks into the door-way next door and listens. He hears a muddle of voices. He pulls a long, thin snake camera/microphone out of his pocket, attaches it to his phone, then threads the camera/mic through a gap in the old door.

The “Inspector” hides in the shadow of the doorway, listening through his earbud headphones. On his phone screen he sees three kids around a lab/worktable. One kid wearing a lab coat. A girl in a Midville Mudhens hat. The third kid digging through a backpack.

The Inspector presses RECORD and listens.

LabCoatKid: “. . . so what I haven’t been able to figure out is how to open and close that wormhole.”

MudhenKid: “Maybe there is an invention already out there that you can improve. In the same way the telescope started with simple magnifying lenses . . . that led to Galileo’s first telescope . . . that led to Newton’s improved reflecting telescope . . . that led to giant telescopes . . . that led to outer space telescopes like the Hubble . . . and that humongous Chinese radio telescope your mom and dad were checking out.”

BackpackKid: “You really have been doing your homework.”

LabCoatKid: “But space-time travel is different. No one has ever done it. Most people don’t even believe it’s possible.”

BackpackKid: “Ha! That is the story of almost every invention. No one has ever done it. But when you make changes, additions, improvements—it’s suddenly obvious.”

BackpackKid pulls a stack of papers out of his backpack.

“Like check this out. 1851. A guy named Elias Howe figures out a way to ‘Fasten Garments’ without using buttons like everyone does.

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