

It only makes things bigger, but that’s not a bad idea . . . . One blast from this device can make things hundreds of times bigger, Franny declared proudly.Ĭan you use it in reverse and make your mouth smaller? Freddy asked.įranny answered, It doesn’t have a reverse setting. Or when Franny tried to show off her just-debugged Biggerizer to her little brother, Freddy. That’s nice, Franny, he said without even looking up from his newspaper. I genetically engineered a real cow for the portability that today’s baby-on-the-go demands. Like when Franny presented her recently perfected Personal Cow to her father. This was Franny’s bedroom, and she loved it more than anyplace else in the whole world, because this was where she came up with some of the most exciting new ideas in mad science.īut, as is often the case for mad scientists, it was impossible to get her friends and family to take her work seriously. Everything, that is, except the bedroom behind the tiny, round upstairs window.

Everything about the house was bright and cheery. The Stein family lived in a pretty pink house with lovely purple shutters down at the end of Daffodil Street.
