The Little Rainbow Dragon: And 17 More Colour Stories

By Marion Ireland, Margaret Lewer and Brooke Lewis

Imagine a world without colour! Such a world would be dull and boring. Planet Earth is full of colour, and people all over the world love and appreciate colour in its many forms. Children will find their favourite colours in this unique collection of colour stories that tap into the imagination and enthusiasm of children, starting with a fantasy story about a colourful little dragon. Stories about all the colours of the rainbow plus black, white, grey, pink, brown, turquoise, silver and gold have been created to also give children some understanding and appreciation of colour and its relevance in their world.

Some stories contain a subtle message skilfully woven around the characters. For example, The Little Rainbow Dragon has a subtle antibullying message. A Story About Black has a subtle message about overcoming being afraid of the dark. Children all over the world relate to timeless stories such as these. They also provide a vehicle to foster a love of literature. Reading to children is, and always has been, an essential element in establishing a framework for independent reading.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris AU
• Release date: Jul 26, 2017
• ISBN: 9781543402452

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Copyright © 2017 by Marion Ireland and Margaret Lewer. 761063

Library of Congress Control Number:   2017911215

ISBN:   Softcover     978-1-5434-0246-9

             Hardcover   978-1-5434-0247-6

             EBook         978-1-5434-0245-2

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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to any actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

Rev. date: 07/26/2017

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CONTENTS

The Little Rainbow Dragon

A Story about Red

A Story about Red and Orange

A Story about Orange

A Story about Yellow

A Story about Green

A Story about Blue

A Story about Indigo

A Story about Purple

The Rainbow Lorikeets

A Story about Black

A Story about White

A Story about Grey

A Story about Pink

A Story about Brown

A Story about Turquoise

A Story about Silver and Gold

The Hospital Clown

The Rainbow Song

THE LITTLE RAINBOW DRAGON

O NCE UPON A TIME, A family of dragons lived in a cave on an island with a large volcano. The dragons were interesting because of the way they changed colours. In spring and summer, their scales were green. In autumn, their scales changed to the same autumn colours as the leaves on the trees that grew on the slopes below their cave. When winter brought the cold winds and snow, the dragons became the colour of the winter sky and hibernated in caves. Even the volcano fell silent under the cold grey skies.

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New baby dragons were always born in the spring, except for one little dragon that was born during a summer storm when lightning lit up the sky, which turned from light blue to dark blue, indigo, and then purple. He wasn’t green like the other dragons wearing their summer colours; neither was he wearing the dragons’ autumn colours. He was all those colours plus the colours in the sky during the storm.

His mother thought he was the most beautiful dragon in the whole world. His father was sure he would also be a very clever dragon. They were proud of their new baby but knew that other dragons would tease their special little dragon because he was different.

The colourful dragon watched all the bigger dragons playing dragon games, breathing in the hot flames from the volcano then breathing the fire back out of their mouths across the waves when they landed on the beach. Sometimes the colours stayed in the sky, turning the white and grey clouds red, orange and pink until the sun went down.

‘Why am I different from the other dragons?’ the little dragon asked his mother.

‘Because you are special!’ she replied.