Eleanor
Narrator: A long time ago, camels did not live in the
desert. The camels in the forest had been biting at their fur for day trying to
get the bugs out. They pressed their eyes
against the trees looking for bugs. They pulled apart their lips trying
to get yucky bug tastes out of their mouths.
Camel one: I’ve been pulling out my fur so much it’s
short, I’m cold in this forest!
Camel three: We have all split our hooves on rocks
now they hurt when we walk on this hard dirt.
Camel two: I’ve heard the deserts sand is soft and
it’s warm there.
Narrator: The next night, camel one closes his
eyes...
Camel one: I can still see
Camel two/three: We can too!
Camel two: Are eyelids are clear.
Camel three: This will protect us from sandstorms
when we move to the desert.
All: We should move to the desert!
Narrator: So the camels moved to the desert. They
soon found that they could travel very far. Their thick lips let them eat
cactuses. Their short fur made them not too hot. That is why camels live in the
desert.
Dear Eleanor--
ReplyDeleteI like stories where people make up an explanation of how something came to be the way it is. Rudyard Kipling wrote a lot of these in The Just So Stories. Most people know his story The Elephant's Child about how the elephant got his trunk, but he has lots of other stories too. You told us a lot of things about camels in this story.
When you grow up, I wonder which you will like more: learning about the way animals really are, and how they came to be that way or learning new stories that people tell about how things came to be the way they are? I like both.
Crossing Rebecca