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There's big news today... This is the day for a Zoo Adventure! The children packed a tasty lunch with a pair of pear pies, and a pudding cake. What a wonderful time this was going to be!
(Child) prepared a special bag for the trip... just in case. Away they went. The children read a book and played with a big red ball in the car. Everyone was having a ball as they traveled to the zoo.
But, when they reached the main gate, they could see that something was very wrong. The zookeeper came running toward them with a gait so fast he ran out of his shoe! Then his pocket watch fell out of his long coat, and a scraggly old monkey grabbed it and ran off. He longed to get it back, but the poor zookeeper was just too upset. Everyone in the zoo was feeling blue. Now who would coat the zoo in blue?
"I'm so blue... The zoo is blue. I don't know what do to!" he cried. Before they could ask him what he meant, he turned right and blew right past them. "The zoo is blue!" he cried again. No one understood this, so it seemed right to go inside and look for themselves.
Upon entering, they saw the zoo was indeed as blue as the zookeeper said. They went to the zebra corral where they were met by a glum looking creature with no stripes and a big blue tear in his eye. "We're blue because we have no stripes. We don't know what to do!" he cried.
This wouldn't do at all. Zebras are supposed to have stripes and that's all there is to it! So (Child) reached into (her) bag and found a big black crayon. In just a few mintues, stripes had been placed on every zebra in the place. And, even though some stripes were a little crooked, the zebras were happy again. They jumped and kicked and sang a zebra song!......
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