A Colorful Story

Veronika came into the living room.

She found the other dolls all sitting on the back of the couch.

Billy was reading a book about Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer. He was wearing a red shirt.

Charlotte was reading a book about a musician named Mozart. She was wearing an orange sweater.

Mariah was reading what she had written in her journal a year ago. She had a yellow cardigan on.

Mandy was knitting a sock for The Writer for Christmas. She was dressed in green.

Emil was reading a book about dogs, because dogs are one of his favorite kinds of animal. The T-shirt he was wearing was blue.

Jolena was looking at a cookbook to decide what to fix for supper, because she likes to cook almost as much as she likes to do flips in the air on her skis. She was wearing a violet cardigan.

"All of you look just like a rainbow!" Veronika exclaimed. "You're all sitting in a row," she pointed out, "in the same order as the colors you're wearing appear in a rainbow, and you're up high, like a rainbow!"

"Billy," Veronika said, "you are wearing red."

"Charlotte is wearing orange," Veronika went on.

"Mariah is wearing yellow," she said.

"Mandy, you're next, and you're wearing green," Veronika continued.

"Then Emil has a blue shirt on," she told them.

"Jolena is at the end," Veronika said finally, "She's wearing violet, just like the last color in a rainbow."

"There's a real rainbow outside," Veronika told them. "Come and look! It's pretty!"

The dolls went and looked out the window. They saw something that looked like this.

The rainbow was red on the top. Then came the other colors: orange, yellow, green, blue and finally violet.

The dolls came back to the couch and sat down again. They all sat in the same order as the colors in the rainbow. Veronika sat at the end and admired them.
"What makes a rainbow?" Billy asked, looking at Mandy, because he was sure she was the right doll to ask.

"Well," Mandy began, "the light from the sun has all of these colors in it, but they are all mixed together, so most of the time we just see the sunlight, but when there are drops of water in the air and the sun is out at the same time, sometimes the light from the sun hits each drop of water."

"When the light goes through the water, it divides all the colors in the sunlight into separate colors," Mandy explained.

"I read about a rainbow in a story once," Emil said. "A man named Noah took all kinds of animals into a big boat, because God told him there was going to be a flood. He had two of each kind of animal," he continued. 

"After the flood, Noah saw a rainbow," Emil said.
"That story is in the Bible," Veronika said. "It's one of my favorites."

"Yes," Charlotte agreed. "The story of Noah and his boat is in the Torah."

"That story is in the Qur'an, too," Mariah said. (She said the name of the book like kuh-RAN.) "It's an interesting story, isn't it?"

"If I'd been on Noah's boat," Emil pointed out, "I would have been a very important person. I could have told Noah what each animal wanted him to know."

"You don't need to be on Noah's boat to be an important person," Jolena pointed out. "You're important right here, with us."

All the other dolls agreed with Jolena.
"You're very important to us," Veronika agreed, "and not just because you can talk to animals."
"You know," said Mariah, thoughtfully, "We're sort of like a rainbow. We're all different, but together we make something bigger."

"We should write down our stories in a book." She said.
Cast--
Veronika: Götz Classic Kidz Vroni
Mandy: Götz Happy Kidz Katie 2015
Jolena: Götz Happy Kidz Lena in Aspen
Charlotte: Götz Happy Kidz Anna in Paris
Mariah: Götz Happy Kidz Mariah, "Chosen" from My Doll Best Friend
Billy: Götz Happy Kidz Lily at London
Emil: Götz Happy Kidz Emilia

Note: No dolls were harmed during production of this blog. All dolls shown are Götz Happy Kidz or Classic Kidz. If you like these stories and are willing, please make a donation of any amount to a charity that supports pediatric cancer, such as CURE Childhood Cancer, St. Baldrick's Foundation or St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.
"The Doll's Storybook" is not affiliated with Gotz Dolls USA Inc. or Götz Puppenmanufaktur International GmbH.
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Image on Mariah's shirt used with permission with thanks, from Free To Be Kids, where human-size shirts with this image are available.

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