The Secret to Seeing a Rainbow Everyday

A story I wrote dedicated to my beautiful Poppy.

The Secret to Seeing a Rainbow Everyday

Poppy Penguin is a very little penguin who lives in the South Pole. Today she is looking out the window with her very big wondrous eyes and all she sees is...

White! The beautiful, glistening dazzling white of snow. In fact, it is the most amazing white that Poppy has ever seen.

She is still thinking about the beauty of the South Pole, when it is bedtime.

Mummy shows her a picture book of the world and it has many amazing colours. Poppy asks to be read it again and again. She is amazed at all the wonderful places far, far away, past the white of the South Pole.

Mummy and Daddy Penguin kiss her goodnight and Poppy is still thinking about all the wonderful colours and places, as she falls asleep.

She dreams that she is looking at a huge red rock that she remembers is Ayers Rock in Austraila.

She thinks that the rock is the most amazing red she has ever seen.

With a blink and a wink, Poppy finds herself sitting on a lily pad in a pond in China. There is an orange Koy carp looking up at her.

She thinks that the fish is the most amazing orange that she has ever seen.

With a swish and a swoosh, she lands in the Sahara desert in Africa and there is yellow sand as far as she can see.

Poppy thinks that the sand is the most amazing yellow she has ever seen.

With a whizz and a wheesh Poppy is plopped down by a tree, not just any tree, but a tree in the heart of the Amazon rainforest in South America.

Poppy thinks that this tropical tree is the most amazing green she has ever seen.

With a zip and a zoom she is off again. And a zap later she is in more woodlands in the UK in Europe surrounded by some beautiful bluebells.

Poppy thinks that these flowers are the most amazing blue she has ever seen.

Before she can wonder where she is going next, with a click and clack Poppy lands in North America and spots a bird whose colour she has never seen before.

“Hello, I'm an indigo bunting. What are you?” asks the bird

Poppy thinks that this bird is the most amazing 'indigo' she has ever seen.

“I'm a …..” Poppy begins to say, but she wakes up before she finishes her sentence.

She gets out of bed to tell her Mummy and Daddy all about her dream, when she looks out the window and her beak opens in amazement...

For out of her very own window is the most beautiful sky called the Southern lights.

Poppy thinks that the sky is the most amazing violet she has even seen.

Poppy looks out of her window until everything becomes white again and is still there when Mummy comes in to give her a morning hug.

Poppy tells Mummy about all the mazing colours she had seen that night. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.

“You've seen the colours of a rainbow” smiles Mummy penguin.

“Do you want to see those colours again now, Poppy?” she asks

“Oh yes!” smiles Poppy jumping up and down in excitement.

Mummy got out this post of magic liquid, pulled out a wand, and....

...blew through her beak and these beautiful bubbles appeared.

Poppy can see a rainbow on the side of each bubble and she giggles as she looks at all the amazing colours all over again.

Daddy penguin says “I know another way to see a rainbow, see if you can work it out” and he gives Poppy some paints.

Poppy spends some time mixing these paints and she paints a rainbow with the most amazing red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.

Poppy is excited to be able to see a rainbow day or night and all year around. Even on the coldest, darkest days she is happy that she knows the secret to seeing a rainbow everyday.

THE END

Words by Hope Huggs
Pictures by: J Fetterling