Over the Rainbow with Googol and Googolplex

By Nelly Kazenbroot

Googol and Googolplex are back from space, ready to continue their scavenger hunt. Pippa and Troy are eager to help, but runaway bulls and disappearing rainbows make their task difficult. And dangerous!

Over the Rainbow with Googol and Googolplex is the third book in the Googol and Googolplex series.
Book one is Down the Chimney with Googol and Googolplex.
Book two is Under the Sea with Googol and Googolplex.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
• Release date: Sep 1, 2006
• ISBN: 9781554696857

Nelly Kazenbroot

Nelly Kazenbroot is a prize-winning painter and writer, and she has been published in literary magazines across Canada. Her projects include everything from picture books, to adult fiction, to large surreal paintings. She lives in Nanaimo, British Columbia with her family.

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—N.K.

Chapter One

Rainy-Day Friends

The third time Googol and Googolplex fly to earth, water is dropping out of the sky. Little rivers run down the windows of their invisible spaceship. The robots can barely see where they are going.

Pippa and Troy’s house must be around here somewhere, Googol tells Googolplex.

Yes, but where? Googolplex asks.

They fly two times above the town where Pippa and Troy Sinclair live. The second time they fly very low. Now it is easier for them to see all the nice square houses with the triangular roofs.

Look! Googol says. His head spins around three times. Isn’t that Troy and Pippa?

Their invisible spaceship hovers like a big umbrella above the heads of two children in bright yellow raincoats. The children are standing behind a log cabin at the far edge of town.

Troy frowns up into the sky.

Why isn’t it raining on us anymore? he asks. It’s still raining on the house and the trees.

Pippa smiles. I think I know why.

She can’t see the robots’ spaceship, but she can hear it buzzing softly. It always reminds her of a big bumblebee.

Googol and Googolplex park their spaceship on the grass and roll down the ramp on their super-retractable, self-adhesive wheels.

Googol! Pippa says.

Googolplex! Troy yells.

They run across the soggy lawn to greet the robots.

Googol and Googolplex are almost twins. They both have square yellow toes, silver bodies and red heads. The children can only tell them apart by their different color wrist blocks. Googol has red ones and Googolplex has blue ones.

How ever did you find us here? Pippa asks.

The water coming out of your sky helped us, Googolplex says.

It made us fly lower, Googol says.

Googol looks over at the log cabin. "Has the father-who-is-not king moved you