Read How to Curse in Hieroglyphics Online
Authors: Lesley Livingston
“Hmmph,” Cheryl grumped, and crossed her arms. “They're gonna be disappointed when they see that the carnival has packed up and moved ⦠uh ⦠moved ⦔
Before she could finish, first one ⦠then another ⦠and another of the cars flipped on a turn signal. A
right
turn signal. They were turning into the Starlight Paradise! All of them! To see Cheryl and Tweed's triple bill!
“Gah!” Tweed exclaimed suddenly. “Popcorn!”
Cheryl's eyes went huge. They hadn't even thought to turn on the machine.
“That's half the town!” Pilot said, staring at the cars that kept on coming.
In the distance, the twins could hear Pops calling their names.
They turned to see him bustling out across the yard toward them, hair tufts waving where they stuck out below his baseball cap. “See?” He pointed at the steady stream of automobiles. “I knew your triple bill would trump any kind of hubbub that fly-by-night carnival might have drummed up. You girls are a smash-up derby hit!”
The girls beamed proudly.
“Well, you'd best get to popping up some corn.” Pops turned and headed toward the projection hut. “Those Wiggins folk can be monstrous hungry!”
“Don't worry, little ladies,” Artie said, putting a hand
on each of their shoulders. “We'll help you out. We're a team of heroes. Right, Armbruster?”
“Right you are, Art-Bart.” Pilot's grin was ear to ear. “Right you are.”
“Okay then.” Tweed nodded decisively and deadpanned the old drive-in movie jingle line: “Let's all go to the snack bar!”
Cheryl just took off at run, yelling at the top of her lungs â¦
“ACTION!!”
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We are thrilled to have the opportunity to thank all of the wonderful, talented, hard-working people who have made it possible for us to tell tales of the Wiggins Weird! First and foremost, of course, is our fantabulous storyboard illustrator, Steven Burley, who managed to take our words right off the page and turn them into the spitting images of the characters who live in our heads! We still don't know quite how he did it, but we're a little afraid of his gnarly powers â¦
Huge buckets o' thanks to our extraordinary agent, Jessica Regel, for championing Cheryl and Tweed and Pilot and Artie. Extra fudg-ickle for you!
And another round of those huge buckets o' thanks to Penguin Canada and the fantastic folks at Puffin, especially Lynne Missen, our amazing editor;
Sandra Tooze, our production editor; and Catherine Marjoribanks, our copyeditor. Thanks also to Vimala Jeevanandam, publicist extraordinaire. It's a big ol' dang delight working with you guys!
Thank you, as always, to Jean Naggar and the staff of JVNLA. Big Love from up here in Canadaland!
Thanks to our families, especially our moms. Our moms rule!
Thanks to all our friends, in particular Mark and Mary Askwith, Simon Evans, Rob Salem and Nadine Bell, who cheered these characters on from the very early days.
And, most important, thanks to YOU for reading this book and, by doing so, bringing the folks of Wiggins Cross to weird and wacky life! We hope you enjoy their adventures!
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Copyright © Lesley Livingston and Jonathan Llyr, 2013
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