It Could Happen - Kids Story

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by Carol Moore
Illustrated by Aura Moser
One day, overnight, the world turned violet. Just about everything turned violet from the sky
and ocean and mountains to the trees and animals and people and from the tallest skyscrapers to
the tiniest ant. People sat around looking at one another wondering if they were dreaming. But
nobody woke up and things stayed violet, all ecept for a single Blue Jay who hadn!t changed
color and stayed the brightest blue.
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Copyright 1996 Carol Moore. Illustrations copyright 2004 Carol Moore. All rights reserved.
No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form
or by any process without prior written permission from the publisher.
2nd Edition. Published by Carol Moore
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Being the only thing in the world that wasn't violet, he was caught and put in a cage.
People were shocked. Some were araid and some were ama!ed and a ew thought it unny,
"ecause along with everyone else, the President was very violet. #hole amilies were violet as
were teachers, movie stars, doctors, nurses, gas station attendants, the $ueen o %ngland, the
President o &o!am"i'ue, ta(i)drivers, every"ody. *hey went rom place to place in their violet
cars and "uses and rode violet "ikes and sat on violet urniture and ate violet ood. %ven
Hershey's candy "ars had turned all violet as had Skittles and &+&'s. ,irls generally thought
this yucky, "ut some "oys thought it was pretty neat.
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The smartest scientists in the world gathered to figure it out. Was something wrong with
people's eyes or was it a trick of nature? They did studies and tests and analyed and e!aluated
and de"ated and wrote article after article# "ut couldn't e$plain it.
%nd no longer could people say they felt &"lue& or were &green& with en!y or had a &green&
thum". 'o what they said and how they said it "egan to change. 'ome people said !iolet was now
the most important color in the world "ecause it was e!erywhere. (thers said that !iolet had no
importance at all "ecause there was too much of it. They discussed and argued# )oined clu"s# held
de"ates# wrote "ooks# and produced mo!ies all a"out the issue of the importance or
unimportance of the color !iolet.
The color of the *lue +ay "ecame a "ig issue "ecause he had such a little "it of "lue and the
world had such a whole lot of !iolet. People argued a"out the importance of that. 'ome said the
*lue +ay must "e a !ery special "ird or may"e not a "ird at all "ecause he alone had kept his true
color. (thers said this was silly# that the *lue +ay ate "ird seed and drank water and fluffed his
feathers and that other than his special color he was still )ust a "ird.
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It was exactly one year to the day after the world had turned violet that people awoke to find
the world had turned yellow. All except the Blue Jay.
In soe ways a yellow world isn!t any different than a violet world. People siply said yellow
instead of violet when they talked a"out things. #nly now the Blue Jay was ore iportant than
ever "ecause he alone had stayed the color "lue and people argued a"out what that eant. $hey
lined up for iles %ust to take a look at hi.
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For the next two years, exactly on the day the world had turned violet and then yellow, it
turned new colors: first orange and then pink. till the !lue "ay stayed #lue, causing ever greater
disagree$ent %% until in the fifth year the whole world turned #lue.
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The first thing people asked was what about the Blue Jay. Had he stayed blue? Yes he was still
the sa!e "olor. #o longer were there two "olors in the world but $ust one %% the "olor blue. &nd
be"ause the Blue Jay was a "olor like e'erybody and e'erything else people began to lose interest.
#ow that he was neither !ore nor less i!portant "rowds stopped "o!ing and one day si(
!onths into the year that the world had turned blue so!ebody let hi! out of his "age and he
flew off looking happy to be free.
The 'ery ne(t !orning the world regained its rainbow of "olors as if nothing had e'er
happened. &t first this was a no'elty but soon people forgot the world had on"e been all 'iolet.
They forgot the world had on"e turned yellow then orange then pink and then blue. They
returned to saying they felt )blue) or were )green) with en'y or had a )green) thu!b.
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But on occasion they wondered where the Blue Jay had gone and how he was doing and, most
of all, if he was still the color blue and what it had all meant.
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