Mokie and Bik by Jonathan Bean

Author:Jonathan Bean
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co. (BYR)
Published: 2014-04-15T16:00:00+00:00

Bik rowboated faster than he ever could. He’d never seen seaweed like that, and he knew he had to get it. He grabbed the yellow seaweed and pulled, and Mokie’s head popped out of the water.

Mokie spluttered and spat out mouthfuls of harbor. “I saw starfish,” she said. “And sea urchins.”

She grabbed Bik’s arm to pull closer to Tadpole.

“Twin overboard!” Bik shouted. Bik’s voice was loud, LOUD, LOUD—that’s what their father always said, and their mother, and Ruby.

But their father was on his ship-at-sea. Their mother was on her botormike. Ruby was sploshing the floor in Bullfrog’s cabin and singing “Hi, ho, the illy-ally-o!” too loud to hear.

“Twin overboard!” Mokie tried to shout, but her mouth was full of harbor and she blew bubbles instead.

“Twin overboard!” Bik shouted again, LOUD, LOUD, LOUDER, but Laddie was too sound asleep to hear.

Slow didn’t like Bik shouting, so he pulled his head back under his shell and didn’t tell anyone.

Bik tried to pull Mokie in over Tadpole’s side, and Tadpole leaned over too—tip-tip-tipping—and Bik was slip-slip-slipping.

The harbor started coming into Tadpole. Tadpole tip-tip-tipped more, and Bik slip-slip-slipped more, till he was nearly overboard with Mokie.

Bik held on to Tadpole with one hand and Mokie’s hair with the other, and threw himself to the opposite side of Tadpole.

Tadpole sat back on the harbor the way a boat should sit, and Mokie slithered in like a slippery fisk.

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