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The Letter to Grandma
Mia held her drawing for Grandma up to the laptop's tiny camera. Click! There it was, on the screen. "Off to Grandma!" said Mia, and pressed send. "Grandma lives far away," said Bit. "How can a picture get there?" "Let's go and see!" said Lulu.
Bit and Lulu wriggled down to the River of Sparks. There stood Mia's drawing, made of thousands of tiny lights! "The camera turned every little spot into a light," said a Sparkling. "Now it's a computer picture, and we can send it." "Wiggle-wow," said Bit.
"Hop on, picture!" said Bit, and he pushed it with his head. Bonk! It was too big for a boat. "So we cut it into pieces and number them," said a Sparkling. "Grandma's computer puts them back in order." Snip, snip! Six pieces, six dot tags.
Six little boats set off, one piece in each. Bit and Lulu rode in boat one, with the sun. Glitch was too big, so she stayed by the shelf. "We keep a copy of each piece," said a Sparkling, "until Grandma's computer says, got it!"
Up the Wi-Fi Tower went the boats, out of the laptop and into Mia's room! "Wheee! We're flying!" cried Bit. "This is Wi-Fi," said Lulu, holding on tight. "It carries things through the air, with no wires." Mia didn't see a thing.
In the kitchen, the microwave came on to warm Mia's milk. It hummed, and the air in the hall went wibbly-wobbly. The boats rocked up and down. Boat five tipped off its wave and drifted away into the dark. "Come back, number five!" cried Bit.
The boats slid down a long wire, on and on, over dark hills, far from home. Lulu counted. "One, two, three, four, six. Five is missing!" Bit's sprout drooped. "Grandma's picture will have a hole." They could see a little house glowing far ahead.
In the little house, Grandma sat knitting. Ping! went her computer. "Is that from Mia?" she smiled. The boats knew the way, because Grandma's computer has its own address, like a house. They floated right inside it. "Hello, Grandma!" called Bit.
Inside was a little Glowtown with its own Sparklings. They laid the pieces in a golden frame, in number order. But space five stayed empty. "I'll be piece five!" said Bit, and lay in the gap, very flat. Lulu giggled. "Grandma wants hands, not a worm!"
"Don't worry," said Grandma's Sparkling. "We just ask for it again." A little boat with a five-dot flag sailed all the way home. "They need number five!" said Glitch. The last copy on her shelf was piece five. She sent it off in a new boat.
Whoosh, in came boat five, and piece five went into its place. The picture was whole! On Grandma's screen, there was Mia's drawing, the sun, the grass, and the two of them holding hands. Grandma put her hand on her heart. "Oh, Mia. It's beautiful."
Grandma wrote back, and Bit and Lulu sailed home in her letter. "I love your picture, my darling," it said. Mia began to type back, one key at a time. Boom, boom, went the Keyboard Hills. "What happens when you press a key?" Bit wondered, and fell asleep.
寄给奶奶的画
米娅把给奶奶的画，举到电脑的小摄像头前。咔嚓一声，画就出现在屏幕上了。“去奶奶那里吧！”米娅说着，按下了发送。“奶奶住得那么远，”比比说，“画怎么去得了呢？”露露说：“我们去看看吧！”
比比和露露钻进键盘，来到火花河边。码头上立着米娅的画，是用好多好多小灯拼成的！“摄像头把每一小点都变成了一盏小灯，”一个小火花说，“现在它是电脑里的画，可以送出去啦。”“扭扭哇！”比比说。
“画呀，快上船！”比比用脑袋一推，咚的一声，画一动也不动。它太大啦！“所以我们把它剪成小块，编上号码，”一个小火花说，“奶奶的电脑会按着号码放回去。”剪刀动了起来，把画剪成了六块，每块都挂上了点点小牌子。
六只小船出发了，每只船上一块画。比比和露露坐在一号船上，旁边就是太阳。小故障太大了，坐不进小船，就留在架子旁边。“每一块，我们都留一份，”一个小火花说，“一直留到奶奶的电脑说‘收到啦’。”
小船们爬上Wi-Fi塔，飞出电脑，飞进了米娅的房间！“哇，我们飞起来啦！”比比喊。“这就是Wi-Fi，”露露紧紧抓着船边说，“它不用电线，从空气里送东西。”米娅看着屏幕，什么也没看见。
厨房里，微波炉打开了，要给米娅热牛奶。它嗡嗡地响，走廊里的空气一下子变得晃晃悠悠。小船们摇来摇去。五号船一歪，从波浪上滑下去，漂进黑暗里，不见了。“五号，快回来！”比比喊。
小船们顺着长长的电线滑呀滑，翻过黑黑的小山，离家越来越远。露露数了数：“一、二、三、四、六。五号不见了！”比比的小芽耷拉下来：“奶奶的画要破一个洞了。”远远的前面，有一座小房子亮着灯。
小房子里，奶奶正在织毛线。叮的一声，她的电脑响了。“是米娅送来的吗？”奶奶笑着说。小船们认得路，因为奶奶的电脑有自己的地址，就像房子有门牌号。它们一直漂进了电脑里。“奶奶好！”比比喊。
电脑里也有一座小发光城，还有自己的小火花！它们按着号码，把小块放进金色的框子里。可是五号的格子空着。“我来当五号！”比比说着，扭进空格，躺得平平的。露露嘻嘻笑：“奶奶要看的是手，不是小虫子呀！”
“别担心，”奶奶的小火花说，“再要一次就好啦。”一只挂着五点小旗的小船，一路漂回了米娅的码头。“他们要五号！”小故障说。架子上只剩最后一份，正好是五号！她把它放进一只新的小船，送了出去。
呼的一声，五号船到了，五号放进了它的位置。整幅画拼好啦！奶奶的屏幕上，出现了米娅的画，有太阳，有小草，还有手拉着手的她们俩。奶奶把手放在胸口上：“哎呀，米娅，真好看。”
奶奶回信了，比比和露露坐着回信的小船回了家。信上说：“我的宝贝，我好喜欢你的画。”米娅开始回信，一个键一个键慢慢地按。键盘山咚咚地响。“按一下键，会发生什么呢？”比比想着想着，睡着了。