Croaky The Frog

It was a great day in the Amazon until Croaky the rain forest frog came into the trees and told everyone the bad news. "Everyone, everyone! The weather has just been announced!"

"Well, Croaky what is the news?" asked all the animals of the forest. 

Trying to catch his breath, Croaky answered, "King Lion said that there is to be some rain today!"

Everyone looked at him as their faces dropped.

Sally Spider said sarcastically, "Croaky, if you haven't noticed, this is a rainforest.”

Mary Moth said, "Yeah, it rains here everyday."

All the animals turned around and left Croaky by himself. Croaky thought that everyone would thank him, but instead they were aggravated with him.

Croaky went to go find a leaf big enough to cover him. "Ah-ha," he said to himself. "This is a huge leaf. It will do for the storm."

He sat and waited for about a half hour and said, "That’s it, those guys were right, it rains here everyday!" He hopped down to the ground to go find his friends. He looked high and low, near and far, but no one was there. He walked a little more, looked up, and all of the animals were in the tree under an enormous leaf.

"Hey everyone, what are you doing up there?" Croaky asked.

Paul Python said, "Well, Croaky we believe you and are starting a fire and we're going to have a camp-out tonight, but we can't start the party without you."

Croaky thought for a second. "Of course I’ll come up there with you!"

When he got up there the rain started and so did their party! They told scary ghost stories, made s'mores and sang songs. When it was time to go to sleep, each of the animals pulled a leaf off the tree, and went to sleep.

In the morning, Croaky woke up and was excited that the rain had stopped.

Croaky rubbed his eyes and gave a great yawn.

Larry Leopard woke up and jumped from the very top branch to the one above Croaky's head.

"Some campout last night, wasn’t it?"

Croaky replied, "It sure was. I can’t wait to do it again!"

Larry said with a yawn, "Come on, Croaky. I think there are some left over s'mores."

Larry crouched down and Croaky leaped onto his head. "Hold on tight!" Larry said with a soft voice.