Stories for Children / Milly and the Rainbow

Milly sat under the apple tree and watched the rain clouds sweep over the hills. What a wet day!

She ate an apple and waited for the rain to stop. Soon it did. The sky turned blue again, and the Sun shone, warm and golden.

Then she saw the rainbow. It began as an explosion of light, high in the clouds. The sky filled with dazzling colours: blue, orange, green and purple. Then both ends of the rainbow began to fall to Earth...

The rainbow landed in the garden.

Wow! Milly went closer and touched the rainbow. She felt nothing, just air. But the colours moved beneath her fingers.

When she looked up, the rainbow seemed to be stretching on and on into space.

'What would happen if I stepped inside it?' she wondered. There was only one way to find out...

She stepped inside.

It was beautiful! And very quiet. Milly couldn t hear anything.

She looked up. The rainbow seemed to go on forever...