Adam’S Bubble

By Alison A. Pockat

It was just another spring afternoon. Adam was alone and bored. Then he decided to try out some special bubbles that he had just gotten and everything changed.

Shrunk to the size of an ant, he finds friends and excitement in his own back yard as he attempts to get back to his own size. Aided by a fungi - powdery mildew to be exact, an ant, a cricket and several others he finds out about a whole new aspect of life. Imagine getting to talk to the toad you played with last summer or visit a wood roach in his own home! In the process of getting him back to normal, the creatures of his back yard teach him about their lives and how they work to make a life, a home and incidentally a great soil for his garden.

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Mar 25, 2010
• ISBN: 9781449092887

Alison A. Pockat

     Alison Pockat is a Landscape Architect with a small private practice in Cary, NC.  When not working on site plans, she spends a great deal of time with her son, Del, roaming in the woods of the nature preserve that borders her back yard.  Together they also like to go hiking and camping in parks throughout North Carolina and in places like St. John, USVI.      She has practiced landscape architecture for 25 years.  Prior to this, her experience includes work with the Soil Conservation Service and she has had articles published in Erosion Control International Magazine and Landscape and Irrigation Magazine.

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First published by AuthorHouse 3/18/2010

ISBN: 978-1-4490-9288-7 (e)

ISBN: 978-1-4490-9287-0 (sc)

Library of Congress Control Number: 2010902541

Printed in the United States of America

Bloomington, Indiana

This book is printed on acid-free paper.

For my son Del

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 - The Bubble

Chapter 2 - Fergus

Chapter 3 - Betsy

Chapter 4 - Tom

Chapter 5 - Woody

Chapter 6 - Kit

Chapter 7 - Earl

Chapter 8 - Abby

Chapter 9 - The Queen

Chapter 10 - Murry

Post Script - Facts and Fiction

Chapter 1 - The Bubble

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Adam was bored. B-O-R-E-D, bored. True, he could go inside and do his homework, and his Mom had asked him to clean up his room. That just wasn’t what he wanted to do. School had seemed to last much longer today than most days and it was beautiful outside. The sky was crystal clear and unbelievably blue and it felt warm but not hot. A perfect spring day!

Now, what to do. His best friend had gone off to the store in need of new shoes. Mom was in the front yard weeding. Nothing sounded like fun.

Then he saw the test tube full of ‘special’ bubbles. These bubbles were supposed to be almost unbreakable. They made some sort of hard, permanent outer surface that was guaranteed to last longer than regular bubbles.

The lady at the store had made them seem wonderful. She had blown some and let Adam play with them. They were really cool and by some miracle his Mom had actually agreed to buy them; something she did not do often. He didn’t even have to use his allowance money on them.

There they were - in their red test tube. They seemed to be calling to him.

He pulled off the plastic ‘cork’ and pulled out a small wand. The circle that held the ‘soap’ was tiny. Adam thought it could not possibly create anything more than a pea-sized bubble. He blew with a short puff and got a couple of small bubbles.

They drifted around his head and he began to bat them around as if they were baby balloons. Hey, Adam thought. They don’t break! Then he realized that he could string them