(Excerpt from current children's book)
Ruby Rey noticed everything - from the clouds outside her kitchen window, floating silently and angelically over the neighbor's jagged red chimney, to the delicate marshmallows bobbing up and down in her cup of warm cocoa.
"... like little white comfy rafts on a chocolaty lake," she thought, watching them melt into one another. They now formed a sugary rink at the top of her penguin teacup.
She suddenly pictured her pet caterpillar, James, with all of his delicate green feet, tucked neatly into perfect rows of tiny white skates. In her cup and in her mind, James was gliding effortlessly across his very own, custom-built, penguin ice rink.
"I think James should take up ice skating. Don't you, Pigalou?" she asked. Pigalou was seated quietly beside her at the kitchen table, across from James.
Pigalou is Ruby Rey's best-est friend, like a brother and a sister, a dog and a cat, all swirled together -- even though Pigalou was actually once a very round, cushy circus pig. That was a long time ago, though... before all the repairs.
Last year Pigalou was practicing his high-wire routine and accidentally landed his somersault right into the washing machine. That's when Mama called Plumber Lou. He used his super-duper, plumber powers to rescue Pigalou from the Spin-Cycle.
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