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Waldo Wannabe and the Rainbow - 5

He thought to himself, "I wannabe the boy who puts the rainbow back into the sky." Waldo ran, fast as a . When, at last, he came to the huge stone, he climbed up one side and slid down the other. There, stretched out before him as glorious as anything he had ever seen, was the field of every color flower. They swayed like in the soft breeze.

 

Waldo put down his basket and opened the lid as wide as it would go. The rainbow shivered for a moment as if it were then, warmed by the sun's light, leapt gracefully like a across the brilliant, blue summer sky.

 

When Waldo got back home his father ran to him, picked him up and spun him around as if he were lighter than .

"Waldo! Waldo!" his father's happy voice rang like a . "Do you see it, Waldo? Our rainbow, it's back in the sky."

"Waldo," his mother called. "Is it not brighter and more beautiful than ever before?"

 

Waldo smiled and nodded at his parents. And then he felt a small chuckle start to bubble in his mouth, and then the chuckle turned into a laugh. It started down at the bottom of his toes, tickling like a . It crept up his legs like a and raced right up into his mouth and exploded out like a . It was the loudest, happiest laugh Waldo had ever laughed.

 

Waldo had thought it would feel good to have the rainbow all to himself, but he had learned that the real joy of a thing is not in owning it, but in sharing it. Waldo's happy face seemed almost as as the rainbow that shone like a in the sky.

 

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This is from the Arts4All Newsletter April 2000 Issue 12, http://www.arts4all.com/newsletter/issue12/

The co-author of the story is Susan A. Katz.