New Red Gumboots

• Uma Barnes, Grade 2
• Short Story
• 2008

In the garden there lived a hippo called Hippy. She liked to slide on her umbrella in the rain wearing her red gumboots.
One day she slid down the hill and bumped into a banana tree. Hippy started to cry. Her tears made a big puddle and that made her swirl around so fast, that she got so dizzy. She felt like a banana.
Then she picked a banana, but before she picked it something screamed like a giraffe. Then Hippy got really scared and said 'Who was that?' and then amongst the brown tree's she heard 'It was me the giraffe from the banana tree.'
Then they both slid down on a huge umbrella with their new red gumboots.