On the Dog
Authors: J.C. Greenburg
Hiya! My name Thudd. Best robot friend of Drewd. Thudd know lots of stuff. How bug walk up wall. Why bubble break. How spider make web!
Drewd like to invent stuff. Thudd help! But sometime Thudd and Drewd make mistake. Invention plus mistake make adventure! Thudd and Drewd go on adventure now. Want to come? Turn page, please!
To Dan and Zack and Dad
and the real Andrew, with love.
—J.C.G.
For Sid, the cat who acted like a dog.
—D.P.
Andrew Dubble
Andrew has been inventing things since he was four. His first invention was the Whoops Eraser. It was supposed to get rid of stains. But it also got rid of the things that
had
the stains. The Picker Upper picked up spills. But then it leaked them out again.
Andrew is ten now. Today he’s trying out his newest invention, the Atom Sucker.
Judy Dubble
Judy is Andrew’s thirteen-year-old cousin. Judy has been on four safaris to Africa. She’s got a helicopter in her backyard. She even knows how to fly it!
The Atom Sucker
Is it possible to shrink something by sucking the space out of its atoms? Andrew thinks the answer is yes and his Atom Sucker can do it. But he’s been wrong before.
Uncle Al
Uncle Al works at a top-secret laboratory. No one knows what he really does there. But Andrew and Judy know he’s very smart and gives good presents!
Thudd
T
he
H
andy
U
ltra-
D
igital
D
etective. On
Andrew’s seventh birthday, Thudd turned up in Andrew’s mailbox.
A
card was hanging from one of Thudd’s antennas. It said: H
APPY BIRTHDAY
, A
NDREW
! T
AKE GOOD CARE OF
T
HUDD
. H
E CAN TELL YOU EVERYTHING
. L
OVE
, U
NCLE
A
L
. P. S.
N
EVER
WASH
T
HUDD AND DON’T KEEP HIM IN THE DARK
!
Mrs. Scuttle
Mrs. Scuttle is Judy’s next-door neighbor. There aren’t many things Mrs. Scuttle likes. She doesn’t even like her dog, Harley, very much.
Harley
Mrs. Scuttle may own this basset hound, but Judy throws him Frisbees and buys him chew toys. Judy and Harley are close friends. They are about to get
much
closer!
