Newton And The Time Machine
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The proud new owner of a tree fort in the Kingdom of the Merriwarts, Newton now gets to do his all-time favourite thing in the world: inventing. And the best part is, he doesn't need to worry about his older quadruplet brothers discovering and tormenting him. He has turned his attention to building a time machine. And who better to field test it than those smelly newlywed giants, Herbert and Gertrude? Having pushed the button to start the machine, it all looks good, until wisps of black smoke appear ten seconds before blast off...
Frantically Newton tried to stop the countdown. All the smoke made it impossible to see through the goggles, much less shut down the machine. Through the blur, Newton noticed dials spinning and pressure gauges creeping steadily into the red zone of HIGH ALERT.
Gertrude and Herbert had no idea anything was wrong, but commander Joe saw Newton's face and was worried. "T minus six seconds. you should cancel the mission, Pokey."
"I'm trying to but I can't," newton yelled. "Something's wrong!" A fact that was confirmed when the control panel burst into flames.
-From Newton and the Time Machine
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MICHAEL McGOWAN is the author of Newton and the Giant, a Silver Birch Award winner. He is the writer and director of the award-winning film Saint Ralph, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in 2004 and went on to screen around the world. He is finishing his next film, One Week, starring Joshua Jackson. McGowan is the creator of the stop-motion children's show Henry's World and has also written extensively for magazines and newspapers. McGowan lives with his wife and their three children in the countryside beyond Toronto.