Icky Ricky #1: Toilet Paper Mummy
Icky Ricky #1: Toilet Paper Mummy is a part of the Icky Ricky A Stepping Stone Book ™ collections.
The creator of Goodnight Goon and The Runaway Mummy pulls from his mad-scientist brain a kid so attracted to slime, muck, dirt, and yuck he could only be called Icky Ricky.
Uh-oh! Icky Ricky is in trouble and has a lot of explaining to do. Why? Well, you see . . .
He did his homework on cheese slices, but got hungry and ate them.
He had his friends over for a sleepover . . . on the…
An Excerpt fromIcky Ricky #1: Toilet Paper Mummy
What makes Icky Ricky so icky? Well, there was this time, for example . . .
Chapter #1
HOMEWORK CHEESE and THE BOOGER BUBBLE FREAKOUT
Starring
THE NOT-SO-SAFE WATERMELON BIKE HELMET!
Yesterday, Gus came over to my house and wanted to go bike riding. I couldn't find my bike helmet. So instead of wasting time looking for it, I decided to make a helmet.
I brought a watermelon from the kitchen out to the front steps. I cut it in half with a plastic knife because I'm not allowed to use real knives and that took forever. Then I scooped out all of the insides. I put the watermelon on my head. It looked really cool. I had an awesome bike helmet, even though it was all drippy and stuff. Then Gus wanted a watermelon helmet, too. So we made his from the other half of the watermelon.
We didn't know if the helmets were safe for bike riding, so we tested them. We dropped things on them, like a book, splop! And a shoe, clomp! And a wrench,…