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PhantomDusclops92
(4 Score & 7 Years Ago)
2nd Mar, 2017 08:39:11 AM
It's The Giggler Treatment! Man, I LOVED that book and both its sequels.
The best character is always the one-shot disguise.
blakellipsis
Since: Mar, 2017
3rd Mar, 2017 07:10:00 AM
BLESS YOU PHANTOM!!
I remember three main things about a kids' book: —(1)— It was a story about some children, their father, a talking dog (the fastest dog in the world?) and some tiny creatures. The tiny creatures would punish mean parents/adults by putting dog poop where they would step on it, and that poop was usually in the shape of a footprint so the adults would think it was a shadow. The children learn their father is about to step on poop, so they ride on the talking dog to save him. —(2)— The father worked in a cookie factory. They would make different cookies every day of the week, and he had nightmares about one specific weekday because that's when they made the boring cookies (saltines?). He would dream about the cookies telling him boring things, kinda like "did you know a paperclip has three bends?" or "did you know February only has 29 days once every four years?" At the end of the book, he has an idea to change the cookies somehow (adding sugar?) to make them interesting, and his new dreams feature the new cookies telling him actually interesting trivia. —(3)— The chapters were short, and they all had fun titles. They started something like "Chapter one: the introduction" and would degrade to "Chapter thirteen and a half: how close was his foot?" or "Chapter thirty-one or thirty-two, I lost count: did you know...?" Some chapters were plot chapters, some were useless cookie trivia, and several were check-ins about how close the father was to stepping in the poop (like "if you took a cat's whisker and measured its thickness, that's how far away the shoe was from the poop"
PLEASE HELP my sisters don't believe this exists and it's driving me crazy.
Edited by blakellipsis