Globaloonies 1: The Big Red Button: Globaloonies

By Max Candee

Joey Papagopolis is your typical 10-year-old. Like most boys that age, Joey has a pet chameleon named Larry and a mysterious Big Red Button that can transport the two of them through time and space to the far reaches of the planet...

 

Hey, wait a second, that's not typical at all! In fact, that's pretty amazing -- which is why you will want to follow along as Joey and Larry set off on their first Big Red Button adventure. An absent-minded wish and an accidental pressing of the button land Joey and Larry smack in the middle of a conflict between a Native American tribe and some English settlers. Yikes!

 

Are their lives in danger? Can Joey resolve the conflict? Will Larry teach them all how to line dance? Does Larry even know how to line dance?

 

The answers to these questions and more await you in the fun and fantastic adventure of THE BIG RED BUTTON.

 

65+ illustrated pages (may vary by device).

 

Humorous illustrations by Anne Zimanski.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Helvetic House
• Release date: Sep 18, 2013
• ISBN: 9782970074731

Book preview

CHAPTER ONE

Joey Papagopolis is on a mission.

He is a ten-year-old boy with a common first name and a last name that nobody can pronounce. (For the record, his last name is said like this: Papa-gah-poh-liss.)

What Joey Papagopolis wants more than anything is to do something awesome that would earn him a place in the Guinness Book of World Records. That would be so cool. And cool is something that Joey would very much like to be.

Joey and Larry

Joey started wanting that when he heard about a girl who had made a mosaic out of 800 pounds of jellybeans. For real! Her name is Stephanie Logsdon, and she’s from California. She was only twelve when she did it. She used two hundred ten thousand (210,000!) jellybeans and won an art contest. She didn’t get into the Guinness Book, though. Joey thought that was a real shame. He didn’t think anybody else had ever used that many jellybeans to make anything.

Joey was so impressed with her feat that he even sketched it in his notebook:

Stephanie Logsdon

But since Stephanie Logsdon didn’t get into the Book of World Records, Joey thought he’d try to do it. His parents bought him only four bags of jellybeans to start with. He ate so many of them, he threw up, and so they didn’t buy him any more. Clearly, that wasn’t going to be his ticket to Guinness fame.

After that, Joey tried to beat the world record for balancing spoons on one’s face. He didn’t expect it to be so hard since the world record was only seventeen spoons:

Boy with 16 spoons on his face

But after trying for a week, Joey couldn’t even keep one spoon on his face. It was a lot harder than it looked. The kid who won was from Canada. He broke the record set by a kid who was only nine. The nine-year-old had managed to balance sixteen spoons on his face.

Joey balancing spoons

Then, Joey thought about trying to break the world record for holding the most slugs in one’s mouth. A guy from Germany had won that by putting 400 slugs in his mouth and keeping them there for 10 seconds:

Boy holding slugs in his mouth