The Adventures of Colby Ann Derf: With Perkko the Martian and Blobby the Purple Girl

By Arlene Neft and Keilah Ware

GOOD THINGS CAN COME FROM PEOPLE OF ALL SIZES, SHAPES, AGES AND COLORS.
Take Blobby the Purple Girl shes part down-to-Earth and part out of this world!
And how about Perkko? Hes just a green Martian boy looking for fun, but he finds a way to save the day.
Then theres Colby a dreamer from Del Rio with her head in the clouds, but she proves that sometimes dreams do come true!

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Jun 25, 2016
• ISBN: 9781524615659

Arlene Neft

Author ARLENE NEFT, 78, and her granddaughter KEILAH WARE, 14, the illustrator, bring generations and worlds closer together in their book.

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Published by AuthorHouse 06/25/2016

ISBN: 978-1-5246-1564-2 (sc)

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CONTENTS

Chapter One Perkko Makes A Quick Trip To Earth

Chapter Two Colby Gets A Visitor

Chapter Three The Blob

Chapter Four Perkko Returns To Earth

Chapter Five A Cowboy From Mars

Chapter Six A Purple Girl Drops Out Of The Sky

Chapter Seven Blobby’s Doctor Gets Suspicious

Chapter Eight Blobby Makes A Getaway

Chapter Nine Colby’s Christmas Eve Blues

Chapter Ten Perkko Comes To The Rescue

Chapter Eleven Crash, Bang!

This book is dedicated to all my children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, with special thanks to Lilly Kentner and Eli Ware, the two whose enthusiasm for my fictitious character Blobby gave me a reason to get the story published. Love you all!

HOW THE BOOK BEGAN

That blob of pinkish-purple molding stuff looks like Blobby, I said to my granddaughter Lilly who was showing me her jelly-like creation.

Who’s Blobby? Lilly and my grandson Eli asked at the same time.

She’s someone who started out as a drop of purple rain from a cloud surrounding a spaceship and later turned into a purple girl, I replied.

Is this true, Grandma? the two 10-year-olds asked, wide-eyed with wonder.

It’s something I wrote, I answered vaguely, not explaining that it was a spoof I’d written for my weekly humor column in the local paper.

I want to read that book! they both exclaimed. I knew then that I had a ready-made audience.

CHAPTER ONE

PERKKO MAKES A QUICK TRIP TO EARTH

Far away on the planet Mars, a teenager named Perkko, with skin and eyes the color of cucumbers, was lounging on his cot in his family’s houseboat. He glanced through the window at all the people fishing, swimming, diving, boating, water-sliding and waterskiing in the goo-aw (artificial Martian water). There’s nothing to do around here! he moaned to himself.

Perkko craved something more adventurous. He had taken two semesters of Earth History in school and was proud that he could say a few Earth words like groovy and Bebop-a-Lula. So even though he wasn’t old enough to have a spacecraft operator‘s license yet, he figured his dad wouldn’t mind if he took a quick trip to Earth in the family’s new faster-than-light spaceship.

You’re only young once, he said to himself as he climbed into the pilot’s seat. Not knowing any Earthlings personally, he simply closed his eyes and randomly touched a