Pink!

Isabel loves dragons. Especially if they are pink. So this is a story about a pink dragon.



Once upon a time, a long time ago, and far, far away, there lived a little girl. Her name was....Isabel. Isabel loved geography. She loved to look at a big, big world atlas and have her Mummy tell her all the names of the different cities, and states, and countries. She knew the names of countries like Canada, China, Spain and Japan. And she wanted to visit them all.

In her life, so far (Isabel was 5 years old), Isabel had travelled to Montreal and Vancouver, and to Hawaii, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Palm Springs, Sedona, Phoenix, Dallas, New York, Long Island and Boston! Quite a lot of places.

But she really, really wanted to go to China and especially to Japan. So she went to the kitchen and packed a lunch of chips, cookies, a piece of string cheese, 4 strawberries, one kiwi, a tortilla, and a Kool-aid Jammer. She put them into her little pink Barbie lunchbox, packed her rolling pink suitcase with her bathing suit, some PJ's, her Squishy pillow, her toothbrush and 3 books. She went outside and called at the top of her lungs, "PINKY!!!"

Nothing happened.

"PINKY!!!!"

And all of a sudden the ground started to shake and trees to bend and with a flappita-flappita-flap, a humongous pink dragon appeared, snorting pink smoke from his nostrils!

"Pinky!" Isabel cried out. "You made it!"

Pinky smiled the way dragons do...which really is not very well at all. A little whiff of pink smoke drifted out of his nose and a big plop of drool fell out the side of his mouth.

"Oh, yuck!" commented Isabel. And she made her way onto Pinky's back as he tucked her suitcase under his left wing.

"Pinky," Isabel commanded, "We are going to CHINA!"

So, off they went. Flippity-flappiting through the air. They passed mountains and oceans, saw whales and birds, and waved to polar bears. Well, Isabel was mighty hungry, so they stopped a the South Pole for lunch (they had taken the scenic route!) After lunch, they headed off to China.

Isabel saw a long, long line running through all of China. As they started to land, it got bigger, and bigger and bigger. She exclaimed to Pinky,"It's a big, big wall!" Once they landed Isabel ran all over the place asking everyone she saw about the wall. Unfortunately, no one spoke English. So Isabel decided that she was going to learn Chinese when she returned home to Los Angeles.

The other little problem was that the Chinese men and women were very, very scared of Pinky and started running around and screaming. None of the children were afraid. And Isabel couldn't understand why the grownups were so afraid of Pinky, especially since every book she had seen on China always had pictures of huge dragons.

Well, Pinky didn't want to get into trouble, so he gently nudged Isabel. She sighed, "OK, OK, Pinky. I get it....time to go home."

She climbed on Pinky's back and they went back to Los Angeles (stopping for a snack at the North Pole.) Of course, Isabel was quite disappointed that she hadn't had time to visit cities like Shanghai or Beijing which had such great names OR that she couldn't eat any real Chinese food or get a real Chinese fortune cookie. But all in all, she agreed with Pinky that it had been a great day.

"Tomorrow, Pinky," declared Isabel once they had returned to her house, "Tomorrow...we'll go to Japan."