New Short Story for Kids written by: Marcelo Montero
Helen was a smiling and rebellious girl, living with her parents in the house they had inherit from her grandmother Martha.
She fell in love with the garden immediately, and with the lush ivy growing around the balconies and columns.
A lemon tree was blooming splendid with hundred colors. It young fruit were hanging from the thin branches, grazing the green ground. There was a gray plot behind, was were she met her for the first time.
She was sitting looking at the pasture, waiting for who knows, with the eyes half-closed due to the incessant drizzle of the sun. Helen approached her carefully not to scare her too much and then hesitated:
-”Hello”
The greet was so low and high-pitched, she turned and greeted her back saying “Croak“. A large smile appeared on that striking face, and from that moment, Helen and the sweet little frog to whom she baptized with the name Croaky, became inseparable.
After a long time of friendship and of sharing, the little frog became ill. Nobody paid attention to a girl´s caprice, especially when it was about a frog´s illness.
They could not understand what Croak meant to Helen. So, the girl waited for a miracle, prayed during day and night crossing her hands over her chest.
Days passed and Croaky was not recovering. Helen was intensely sobbing, with sadness in her heart, until something unexpected happened…
TO BE CONTINUED…
Click here to read FROG CROAKY (SECOND PART)
Moral of the Short Story: Wishes can come real if we wish them from the bottom of our hearts.
Values of the Short Story: friendship, Love, faith.
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