Pee On Water

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One day there was a girl whose name was Jen. She was a secondgrader. Jen was running to catch the bus when she saw that it was raining. She ran back to get her umbrella. On the way she saw an umbrella walking towards her and it had a face! Jen was scared but she opened it anyway. It was taking her higher and higher, it took her to Mars. Millions of aliens walked in a big circle around her. They said “beep beep.”

All the way back at school, the bus had arrived and the kids were playing outside. Rachel, Jen's best friend, was saying, “What is that noise?” It was the bell. All of the kids ran to their classrooms. They went in. The teacher said “Where is Jen?” No one knew. Right then Jen's voice said “Here I am.” She had flown right through the window and into her chair!

All about the author. Agnes wrote this when she was seven. She grew up in Point Judith, a small shore town. The youngest of many siblings, she was still thoroughly bored by her family. Though known in Point Judith for her watercolor seascapes, Agnes found these unremarkable. Sloppy clouds dripped into the ocean. A bird’s eyes smudged and looked like glasses. Her paper got waterlogged and wavy and her brushes frequently lost their hair. Occasionally, she attempted something really modern, but she knew her place. She was a young regional artist.

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