Tania's Little Angel
She lives in Tania’s pocket and has small silver wings.
Who is the little angel?
In the daytime he looks like this—wearing glasses and a necktie.
What is a normal man?
Tony usually plays at this time of day.
What is after school?
Approximately, the year the first computer mouse was created.
Any year from 1960-1980.
Mom’s health advice: “Eat your ___.”
What are greens/vegetables?
What the angel ties so the teasing boy trips.
What are shoelaces?
At night he wears these large eye protectors.
What are big goggles?
What Tony missed because he kept playing.
What is the school bus?
The material of the first mouse’s box.
What is wood / a wooden box?
Two junk foods the narrator prefers (name one).
What is doughnuts/hamburgers/pizza?
After the boy falls, the person who helps him.
Who is Tania?
The gadget with an antenna he whispers into.
What is a machine (radio/communicator)?
How Mom felt when Tony missed the bus.
What is mad/angry?
What the long cord looked like.
What is a mouse’s tail?
The drink the narrator likes but Mom rejects.
What is Coke?
The angel comes out of this place to help.
What is Tania’s pocket?
Where he goes when the stars are out.
What is the roof?
Where Tony secretly went in the morning.
What is the computer room?
The part on the bottom of the early mouse that helped it move.
What are wheels?
The special salad Mom makes that the narrator dislikes.
What is spinach salad?
The angel’s action that stops the teasing.
What is "tying the boy’s shoelaces together" ?
The quiet way he talks into the machine.
What is whispering?
The new rule Mom shouts at the end.
What is “No more computer games!”
The thing that stayed the same about the mouse over time.
What is that it still looks like a little mouse?
Mom’s reason for saying no to junk food.
What is “It’s not good for your health”?