Welcome back to Kid Short Stories. Today's story is brought to us by one of our friends Lucille.

Hi Lucille! She sent us a really cool idea for a story and you can too. Either head over to our website

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turn it into an awesome adventure.

Are you ready for this one? Me too! Let's go! One day Lucille was at one of her favorite places to be with her family.

Do you know where that was?

The Zoo. Yes,, Lucy loved going to the zoo, but today was kind of a rainy day.

So she brought her bright yellow rain jacket.

Who likes to color yellow?

Me too!

Lucille's rain jacket was so cool.

It had a nice big hood to keep her head dry and it buttoned up and it was very bright.

So as her and her family were walking around the zoo looking at all their favorite animals.

They learned that, oh, animals like to play in the rain too, just like us.

Have you ever jumped in a puddle before?

Yeah, me too. Kind of messy and you should definitely ask your

mom or dad. But having rain boots on and a rain jacket jumping in the puddles is a really fun thing to do.

And so Lucille and her family were watching all the animals jump in puddles. It was so fun. And one of their favorite animals was a hippopotamus. And you know that hippos love the rain? Yes, they love it. Hippos spend most of their time in the water, swimming around and just being hippos sleeping and napping and eating and just floating but they really like when it's

raining because it gives them a bath on the top of their head.

And so Lucille made friends with one of the hippos,

whose name, she named him Henry the hippo.

And so she liked to hang out with him as much as she could when they went to the zoo.

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