Frank Einstein and the Space-Time Zipper (Frank Einstein Series #6)
Watson and Janegoodall race their bikes to Grampa Al Einstein's Einstein’s house Fix It repair shop and Frank Einstein’s laboratory laboratory They skid to a stop drop their bikes race around the back of Grampa Al’s They scan the piles of junk There says Watson Janegoodall and Watson follow the old lightbulb-studded arrow arrow sign But it points to nothing except a pile of broken toasters
The red-orange rays of the setting sun light the top of the giant giant maple tree in the alley Watson jams the banana in his back pocket Frank needs help with toasters Janegoodall looks around Maybe this is the wrong sign She kicks at a pile of junk She sees metal Janegoodall and Watson clear away the toasters But the metal turns out to be nothing but a storm drain
A crow caws in the distance Venus the evening star glows silver in the gathering dusk Are we too late Maybe we missed sunset Janegoodall and Watson look up And that’s when they hear a metallic clink A knocking on the storm sewer cover Watson and Janegoodall kneel down use two rusted metal rods to pry up the metal disk Frank
2 Space Outer space Hundreds no thousands no millions of points of light dot the moonless inky blue-black night sky A kid wearing size-five brown wing-tip shoes swings a giant telescope in a slow arc He scans the points of starlight Wow Standing next to the kid a chimpanzee in a lab coat pleasantly pleasantly surprised for once agrees The sparkly expanse of the Milky Way splashed across the sky is wow
