Eddie and the Rainbird
“Who?”
“The kookaburra. He sits in the trees and laughs. And when the clouds hear him,they start laughing so hard that the tears roll down their cheeks and fall on the ground as raindrops.”
“WOW!” said Eddie. Oskie rolled his eyes some more.
After lunch, Eddie went to have his afternoon nap. He was watching the smoke through the bedroom window and thinking very hard. He knew what he had to do.
He put on his blue helmet, got on his little red bicycle and set off to find the rainbird.
He pedalled as hard as he could. SQUEAK, SQUAWK, SQUEAK!
Eddie rode along the footpath till he got to the football field. There were lots of big trees, so he was sure he’d find the rainbird there.
He rode around the oval, looking up into the gumtrees, but he couldn’t see the rainbird anywhere. He sat on a bench and wondered where to look next.