Poppy and the Mane Mania (DreamWorks Trolls Chapter Book #1) by David Lewman

Author:David Lewman
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2017-07-25T04:00:00+00:00

SHPLORP.

Poppy’s foot sank into the wet ground. She pulled her foot out. SHHHPLOOP! A greasy gob dripped from it. “This is a marsh!” she cried. “A greasy marsh!”

“Yuck!” Satin said, lifting her foot out of the gooey ground. “This stinks. Literally.”

“Well, we can’t go back through that field with all the bouncy plants,” Poppy said. “We’ve got to go on. Let’s just hope this marshland ends soon.”

SHPLORP. SHPLOOP. SHPLOP. SHWURK. The Trolls walked as best they could through the greasy swamp, pulling their feet out of the muck with each step. They kept their eyes peeled for stepping-stones, but there weren’t any.

Unfortunately, the grease wasn’t just under their feet. The swamp trees had long, mossy branches that hung almost to the ground, dripping with more grease—which dripped right into the Trolls’ hair.

“Well,” Poppy said, trying to look on the bright side, “maybe with all this grease in our hair, the twigs will slide out.”

Satin giggled. “Hee hee hee!”

So did Chenille. “Heh heh heh!”

DJ Suki giggled, too. “Tee-hee hee hee!”

Smidge giggled the lowest, deepest giggles they’d ever heard. “Ho ho! Hoo hoo hoo!”

“Why are we laughing?” said Poppy, chuckling. “Did I say something really funny?”

“Hee hee—no,” Satin managed to say between giggles. “Walking—hee hee hee!—through this greasy swamp…heh heh!…doesn’t seem at all funny.”

“But I can’t help giggling!” Chenille tittered.

“It’s like—hee hee!—we’re being tickled!” DJ Suki chuckled.

Suddenly, Poppy remembered something. “I think this must be the Tickle Marsh. I’ve heard of it, but I’ve never been here. Hee hee hee!”

“What’s a Tickle Marsh?” Smidge asked.

“My dad told me about it, heh heh heh,” Poppy said. Her dad was King Peppy. “He found it a long time ago, when he was looking for a place for us to live. Hee hee hee! The ooze in the swamp has this weird effect on anyone who gets it on them. Hee hee! It tickles!”

Satin looked down at her feet. They were covered with ooze. “Heh heh—well, we’ve certainly got it on us. Hee hee! On our feet, in our hair…and even though I’m laughing—hee hee hee hee—it’s not funny!”

The giggling was getting exhausting. Their stomachs were starting to hurt. The five Trolls ran, eager to escape from the Tickle Marsh. But it wasn’t easy running through a swamp. SPLAT! DJ Suki tripped and fell facedown in the mucky ooze. When she lifted her greasy face, she was still giggling. “Hee hee hee hee!”

Finally, after what seemed like ages but was really only a few minutes, they reached the edge of the marsh, where the ground was more solid. They ran on dry grass, then collapsed, wiped out from all the giggling.

“I usually love laughing”—Poppy gasped—“but that was weird.”

“I agree,” DJ Suki said. “Nobody say anything funny.”

Unfortunately, that struck Satin and Chenille as funny, and they started to laugh again. Smidge, Poppy, and even DJ Suki couldn’t help joining in.

“My aching stomach!” Chenille complained, still laughing.

Satin tried to run her fingers through their hair. “How are we ever going to get all this grease out of our hair?” she asked.

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