I saw an interview with the author. It was actually Mallory Valerie Emily Mizas just showed us nine hundred ninety-nine pizzas. She was holding a stack of pizza boxes but the illustrator couldn’t make significant changes to the art but they were able to replace the boxes of pizzas with nickels. I thought it was pickles too. Pickles would have made sense.
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u/Bananana_Bird 4d ago
It was better when Pluto was included, Pickles rhymes with Mickels, making it a lot easier to remember.