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A story about a boy who learns to love the rain after seeing his first rainbow.
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Jason liked to do a lot of things outside.
Picture of Jason riding his bike outside. He liked to ride his bike……
Picture of Jason hiding behind a tree. …..play hide and seek with his
friends…..
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Picture of Jason reading by flashlight in a tent.
…..camp out in his back yard…..
Picture of Jason at bat during a Little League
game. …..and play baseball for his little
league team.
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What he liked more than anything else was to visit the forest preserve that was near his house. It had big open
fields to run around in, and playgrounds to play in, and shelters with picnic tables where he could eat his lunch, and it
had lots of really long trails through the woods where he would go for hikes and look up at the sunlight shining through
the leaves.
Picture of Jason standing in a big forest in front of him, picnic tables to the right and a
playground to the left.
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One day Jason was riding in the car with his Mom and Dad and they drove past the forest preserve. Jason
suddenly remembered that his seventh birthday was coming up. He turned to his Mom and Dad and said, “May I please
have my birthday party in the forest preserve this year?”
His Mom and Dad both thought about it and said yes.
Picture of the Jason in the backseat of a car talking to his Mom and Dad; a sign for the
forest preserve is visible in the back seat window where Jason sits.
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When they got home Jason sat down with his Mom and Dad and talked about all the fun things he wanted do for
his birthday party. Since the forest preserve was so big, he could invite lots of people and do all kinds of fun things like
have a cook-out in the picnic shelter, and play soccer in the fields, and of course, play hide and seek, only in a really big
place like the forest preserve, there were a lot more places to hide, and a lot more places to seek.
Jason was so excited he could hardly stand it.
Picture of the Jason sitting at the dining room table talking with his Mom and Dad.
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The months went by. The invitations were sent out in the mail. Jason waited and waited and waited, until finally
it was his birthday.
Picture sitting in his bedroom watching a calendar.
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They had the party in a picnic shelter by a big field. Balloons and streamers were tied up all over the place.
Picture of a birthday party in a picnic shelter by a field.
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It was the best birthday party Jason ever had.
Picture of Jason’s Dad grilling
burgers on a charcoal grill. Jason‟s Dad grilled up his special
hamburgers that he made with barbecue
sauce and pepper.
Picture of Jason’s mother holding
a birthday cake. Jason‟s Mom made him chocolate
cake with that special frosting he liked.
Picture of Jason sitting at a picnic
table with a pile of presents and a
big smile on his face.
And Jason got lots of really cool
presents, like a skateboard, and a telescope
for looking at the stars.
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After Jason finished eating and had opened all his presents, he went out to the middle of the field with his friends
to play a game of soccer. They were having such a good time that they didn‟t notice the storm clouds that were moving
across the sky, that is, until those storm clouds blocked out the sun.
Picture of Jason standing in the field with his friends. A storm front is moving along the
sky.
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Jason looked up at the storm clouds and got worried. There weren‟t too many things in this world that he didn‟t
like, but one thing he definitely didn‟t like was rain, especially when he was outside, and most especially when it was his
birthday.
“Please don‟t rain,” Jason said to the clouds. “Please don‟t rain.”
Picture of Jason looking nervously up at the sky.
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Picture of a raindrop splashing on
Jason’s nose. Then he felt a raindrop land on his nose.
Picture of a raindrop splashing on
Jason’s cheek. And another one land on his cheek.
Picture of two raindrops splashing
on Jason’s arm. And two more on his arm.
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In just a few seconds, the rain came pouring down like water from a bathtub faucet. Everyone ran under the
shelter to keep from getting wet, and they all sat there waiting for the rain to stop.
But it didn‟t look like that was going to happen any time soon.
Picture of raindrops pouring down and people in the field scattering to get under the
shelter.
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Jason was very sad. This was the best birthday party he ever had and now the rain had ruined it. He went over to
one of the tables at the edge of the shelter to be alone. When Jason was sad, he liked to be alone.
Picture of Jason sitting alone at an empty picnic table looking sad.
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As Jason sat at the picnic table feeling sad, a ray of sunlight managed to poke through the clouds and shine
through the falling raindrops, right onto the grass, not far from where Jason was sitting. Now a funny thing happens to
sunlight when it passes through a lot of rain drops. It gets split up into different colors, and when that tiny ray of
sunlight passed through the rain, six colors appeared. They were Red, Yellow, Orange, Green, Blue and Purple.
Picture of a ray of sunlight shining through the storm clouds; it shines through the
raindrops and is split into slivers of red, orange, yellow, green, purple and blue. The colors
appear right behind the picnic shelter. They have vaguely human faces, eyes a nose and a
mouth, they look a little like ghosts.
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The six colors heard people talking behind them. They turned around and saw Jason sitting at the picnic table
with his Mom, Dad and a few of his friends. They were trying to cheer him up, but they weren‟t having much luck.
Picture of the six colors turning around and seeing Jason sitting alone at the picnic table
looking sad.
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“I can cheer him up,” said Red. “Because I‟m the most beautiful color there is. Apples are red, cherries are red,
strawberries are red, all the fruits that little boys and girls like to eat are red. And I‟m the color of red roses, and clown
noses and Valentines Day cards. I am the prettiest color by far, and I can make that sad little boy feel better.”
Picture of Red standing proud. It has a dream bubble with apples, cherries, a Valentine’s
Day card, a clown nose, and a red rose.
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“No you can‟t!” Blue shouted back. “Danger Signs are red and Stop Signs are red. You‟re the color that scares
people and tells them they can‟t move. And you‟re the color of sunburn and scraped knees. You won‟t cheer that little
boy up, I will, because I‟m the color of the blue sky and when that little boy sees me, he‟ll think of the blue sky that‟s
covered up by those clouds and he‟ll feel happy.”
Picture of Blue arguing with Red. Blue has two dream bubbles, one has a Stop Sign, a
Danger Sign, a scraped knee and a sunburned arm. The other Blue dream bubble shows a
blue, cloudless sky.
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“No he won‟t,” said Yellow. “You‟re the color that makes people sad! Whenever people say they‟re sad, they say
„I‟m feeling blue.‟ And you‟re the color of freezing water, and the gowns that doctors wear at the hospital. I‟m the color
of the sun, and dandelions, and lemonade and lemon drops. I‟m a bright happy color that wakes people up and makes
them want to play and have fun.”
Picture of Yellow arguing with Blue. Yellow has two dream bubbles, one has a sad child, a
frozen pond and two doctors in blue scrubs. The other dream bubble shows the sun, lemon
drops and glasses of lemonade.
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“You‟re too bright,” Green said to Yellow. “People look at you and they go blind. I‟m the best color there is,
because I‟m the color of grass and bushes and leaves. I‟m the color of all the things that grow and make this world a
beautiful place to live.”
Picture of Green arguing with Yellow. Green has two dream bubbles, one has two people
being blinded by the sunlight. The other dream shows lush green trees, a field of green
grass and bushes.
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“You‟re the color of pea soup and icky vegetables,” Orange said. “And when someone is sick they say, „Wow, you
look a little green.‟ And whenever someone is jealous, they say, „That boy is green with envy.‟ And when people stop to
smell the flowers, they don‟t smell the stems because they‟re green and nobody cares about the green part. I‟m the color
of tiger lilies and sunsets, and orange soda, and basketballs. I‟m a nice, warm color that will make that boy feel better.”
Picture of Orange arguing with Green. Orange has two dream bubbles, one has a bowl of
pea soup, a plate of spinach, a kid with a stomachache who looks a little green a nasty kid
looking enviously at another kid with a toy, and a woman sniffing a tulip. The other dream
bubble shows tiger lilies, a sunset, an orange soda and a basketball.
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“You‟re an ugly color,” Purple said. “You‟re the color of construction signs! When people are stuck in traffic jams
for hours and hours, you‟re the color they see. I‟m the color of violets and grapes and the robes that kings wear.”
Picture of Purple arguing with Orange. Purple has two dream bubbles, one has a bunch of
construction signs on a highway with a huge traffic jam. The other dream bubble shows
violets, a bunch of grapes and a king in a purple robe.
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“You‟re a weird color. You make people look silly,” Red shouted. “And you‟re the color of bruises!” Red shouted.
Picture of Red arguing with Purple. There’s one dream bubble with bruises in it, and two
kids making fun of another kid in a purple shirt.
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And so the colors kept arguing back and forth about who was the prettiest color and who could cheer Jason up.
All of sudden, they heard another voice. Not the voice of Jason or his Mom or Dad. Not a voice from anyone at the
birthday party. It was a deep soft voice that came from above. It was the voice of the sunlight.
“Why don‟t you all cheer him up together,” the sunlight said.
“Cheer him up together?” Red asked.
“That‟s a silly idea,” Orange said.
“A very silly idea,” said Yellow.
Picture of the colors looking up at the sky. Sunlight shines down on them.
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“No it isn‟t,” the Sunlight said. “You are all beautiful colors, beautiful in your own special way. Some good things
have your colors, some bad things have your colors, but when all the colors work together, you become one big good
thing. And if that little boy sees you all working together, he won‟t think about the bad things. He‟ll think of the good
things.”
Picture of the Sunlight poking through the clouds.
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“But we don‟t know how to work together,” Green said.
“We‟ve never done it before,” added Blue.
“How should we do it?” Purple asked.
“Easy,” the Sunlight replied. “You join hands and stretch.”
“Join hands and stretch?” the six colors asked at the same time.
“Yes,” the Sunlight replied. “Try it.”
Picture of the colors looking up at the sunlight poking through the sky.
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Picture of the colors joining hands.
So Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue
and Purple all joined hands.
Picture of the colors stretching up off the ground. And they stretched.
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The more they stretched, the taller they got, until they stretched from one end of the forest preserve to the other,
all the way up into the sky!
Picture of the colors soaring into the sky, leaving a trail behind them; a rainbow.
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Meanwhile, Jason was still sitting at the picnic table staring at his shoes. Then Jason‟s Mom tapped him on the
shoulder. “Look Jason, it‟s a rainbow!” she said.
Jason looked up and saw the rainbow, stretching across the clouds in front of him.
Picture of Jason sitting at the picnic table looking up at the sky with his Mom.
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Picture of Jason looking at the rainbow. Jason had never seen a rainbow
before. He had seen pictures of rainbows
and he knew what they were, but he had
never seen one in real life (probably
because he didn‟t like the rain).
Picture of the Jason walking out into the field and
feeling the rain on his face. That rainbow in the sky was one of
the most beautiful things Jason had ever
seen. It was so beautiful that he decided to
get out from under the shelter and get a
better look at it. He walked right out into
the rain.
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When Jason looked up at the rainbow, he felt the cool rain on his face, and he liked it. Then he took off his shoes
and felt the wet grass between his toes. Jason thought, “The rain isn‟t so bad after all. Sure it blocks out the sun, and
it‟s wet and people usually go inside when it starts pouring down, but it feels good on my face, and it feels good on my
bare feet, and I wouldn‟t be seeing something as pretty as that rainbow if it wasn‟t raining.”
Picture of Jason standing in the field with a smile on his face.
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Then Jason looked out at the soccer field. “I‟ll bet playing soccer in the rain would be really fun,” Jason thought.
Jason turned to his friends, grabbed the soccer ball and said, “Wanna keep playing?”
Picture of Jason talking with his friends at the birthday party.
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