The Muddily-Puddily Show
| Author | Valerie Tripp |
| Illustrator | Thu Thai |
| Originally Published | © 2016 American Girl |
| ISBN | 9781609587932 |
Table of Contents
Windy, Windy
The wind pushes against Emerson’s back. It’s blowing so hard she feels like she’s flying as she skips along the pathways to meet her friends, the WellieWishers. She loves the wind because she feels like it likes to stir up excitement. She even made up a little poem about the wind:
Windy, windy blue-sky day,
Swirl me up and blow me away.
Lift me like a leaf or a kite
Over the treetops,
Up out of sight.
Camille, her friend, calls out to her. All the other WellieWishers are waiting for her by a big pile of leaves. Ya-hoo! Emerson flies forward and takes a big leap and lands face-first into the pile of leaves. All of her friends laugh and jump next to her as well.
The wind picks up the scattered leaves and floats them around the girls. Rolling over, the girls watch the leaves dancing through the sky as Emerson shares her leaf poem. All the girls know Emerson is really good at making up poems. She finds it really easy.
Willa comments that she brought apples for everybody. Her aunt takes care of the big garden, so they always have lots of apples to eat. Willa shows the girls a big tree with yellow leaves almost ready to fall off. All the girls agree the tree is beautiful. Together, one by one, they each comment on how pretty the tree is, eventually forming a poem:
They’re as yellow as a school us,
Yellow as a pear,
Yellow as a dandelion,
Yellow as your hair!
As yellow as a lemon,
Yellow as the sun,
Yellow as the butter on a hot, toasty bun!
Yellow as a ripe banana,
Yellow as some cheese,
Yellow as the stripes
On the bumblebees!
Suddenly, Emerson has a brilliant idea.