P.S. The numbers are supposed to correspond with page numbers in a book. I have a friend who might be able to illustrate this for me and I am pretty excited about that.
Pepper, the
Dancing Squirrel
By: Carine
Johnson
1. There once was a very nice squirrel named
Pepper. Pepper was like any other squirrel. She had brown grey fur, a bushy
tale, and she lived in a very nice and leafy tree. One day, completely by
accident, Pepper started dancing.
2. She found that if she turned really fast, she
could look very graceful. Or if she pointed her toes while jumping from tree to
tree and branch to branch, she would feel very elegant. Or if she walked
stylishly across all branches, she would look quite fabulous.
3. Now, it was common knowledge throughout the
whole world that squirrels were not supposed to dance. They could scurry and jump
from branch to branch, but dancing was simply unheard of.
4. Pepper was not discouraged though. She adored
dancing, and nothing could every make her stop. She was happy to scurry about
and jump about and gather her nuts all while dancing gracefully, elegantly and
fabulously.
6. All the other squirrels thought that Pepper was
strange and they stopped playing with her and speaking to her. Squirrels were
not supposed to dance!
7. Pepper did not understand. She had not done
anything terribly wrong. She had simply been dancing and having fun. Now all
her friends didn’t like her anymore.
8. Pepper wanted to have friends and she wanted
to play with the other squirrels again, so she decided to stop dancing. All her
friends started talking to her. All the adult squirrels and kid squirrels were happy
that she was acting like a normal squirrel again.
9. Pepper wasn’t happy though, even with all her squirrel
friends back. She wanted to dance but, if she did, she would not longer have
any friends. Pepper had a choice to make.
10. One
day while scurry across the tree branches and feeling very sad, Pepper saw
something completely wonderful and fantastic. There in the sky twilling and
diving was Edgar the majestic bald eagle. Pepper was in awe; she had never
seeing anything so beautiful. Edgar was dancing.
12. When Edgar saw that Pepper was watching him,
he stopped on her branch to say hi. Edgar saw that Pepper looked very sad.
Edgar asked Pepper what was wrong. Pepper looked at him and told that she wanted
to dance and be graceful and elegant and fabulous. But she couldn’t dance.
Squirrels were not supposed to dance.
13. Edgar nodded at Pepper as if he understood.
He told her that eagles were not supposed to dance either, and that all his
eagle friends that he was weird at first, but then they got used to him. Now
all the other eagles were twilling and diving and looking majestic.
14. Edgar told her that she to be herself and
eventually, her squirrel friends would start liking her again. Some of them
might even start dancing with you Edgar told her. Pepper was skeptical at
first, but she loved dancing so much that she decided to try being herself. So
Pepper started dancing again. And all her friends stopped talking to her again.
But it was okay this time, because she really liked to dance.
15. Then one day while she was out dancing from
branch to branch and tree to tree, one of her squirrel friends came up and
talked to her. His name was Timmy. Timmy asked if she wanted to play with the
other squirrels. Pepper said yes and was so happy. So for the whole day, she
danced and played with all her friends. Some of them even joined her.
16. Edgar the eagle had been right. By being
herself, she was able to keep dancing and keep playing with all friends. From
that day forward the whole world knew that squirrels could dance and could look
graceful, elegant and fabulous doing it.
The End
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