Monthly Challenge Under My Umbrella

By Janie Reinart
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Bus stop, wet day

She's there, I say
Please share my umbrella

     No matter what you call it--brolly, bumbershoot, gamp, 

     parasol, parapluie, or sunshade--your challenge this month 

     is to write a story about an umbrella.

The author/illustrator Amy June Bates and her daughter, Juniper Bates collaborated on the story

The Big Umbrella.



"By the front door...

there is an umbrella. 

It is big. 

It is a big friendly umbrella. 

It likes to help.

It likes to spread it's arms wide. It loves to 

give shelter."

By Jackie Azua Kramer

What happens when several animals claim they've had exciting adventures with Elephant's 

umbrella? More exciting than walking in then rain?

"One rainy day an Elephant was taking a walk with his green umbrella.

Along came a Hedgehog.

"Excuse me," said the Hedgehog, "I believe you have my boat."

"Your what?" asked the Elephant.

By Jennifer Lloyd

Ella's umbrellas fill the house.What happens when she has to give them away?


"Ella had big umbrella and small umbrellas. She had umbrellas in pink, turquoise, and 

tangerine. She had them in every color, even jellybean green. 

Several were stripped and a few speckled with spots. A sprinkling had sparkles. A handful 

had hearts.  Some opened slowly and plenty went POP! 

By Shirin Yim Bridges

When Noot is finally allowed to paint umbrellas, she secretly hopes to be chosen as the 

umbrella queen. But what happens when her imagination takes over?

"High in the hills of Thailand, there is a village where everyone does the same thing, the 

same thing  the people in the village have been doing for hundreds of years; making 

umbrellas. Big umbrellas, small umbrellas. Paper umbrellas, silk umbrellas. Red, blue,

yellow, pink, green umbrellas--all of them painted with flowers and butterflies by the women 

and girls of the village."

Don't wait for a rainy day. Have some drizzly fun...

under my umbrella.