The Story of the Rainbow

Once upon a time there was a beautiful Rainbow that stretched all the way across the sky. A little pink princess saw the Rainbow, and saw that it ended right on top of her house! She ran to tell her mother, the queen, but when they went back to look at it later, it was gone.

"It must have gone home to eat its breakfast," the queen told the princess.

But the princess knew that couldn't be true, because rainbows don't eat breakfast.

"Well, what do they eat?" asked the queen.

"They eat monkeys, and elephants, and tigers."

"Well then, it probably went looking for those things - the Rainbow must be at the Zoo!"

Then the princess explained that rainbows don't really eat animals - they eat animal crackers. The Rainbow went to the Zoo to get some animal crackers to eat, but when she got there she found that the Alligator had eaten all the animal crackers!

The Rainbow told the Alligator that he wasn't allowed to eat all of her animal crackers. She knew that the best way to get someone not to take something away from you is to find something that they like better, and to offer a trade. So the Rainbow went to find some alligator food.

She knew what to look for because alligator food looks like huge tails and huge feet and huge faces and huge backs. And huge feet. The Rainbow looked all over the Zoo. She finally found the alligator food way up on the top shelf in the kitchen. She got some and brought it to the Alligator, but the alligator didn't want to share. The Rainbow told the Alligator "This is your food, and the animal crackers are my food, and you can't have my food!" And of course, the Alligator knew that she was right.

So the Alligator ate his alligator food, and the Rainbow ate all of the animal crackers. She ate all the monkeys first, because they were her favorites. Then she went home and went to sleep.

The end.