Ryers Readers - Clifford’s Happy Easter

Episode Date: April 15, 2022

Emily Elizabeth is so excited for Easter, she has the most beautiful, colorful dreams!!

Let's do this. Thank you so much for tuning into today's story. Make sure to tell your grown-up to go check out the Ryer's Reader's Instagram for more fun content. Before we get into the story, do you want to know a fun fact? Spring is one of our four seasons. We have winter, spring, summer, and fall. Spring comes after winter and before summertime. Happy Spring, everyone.

Okay, story time. Today, we are going to be reading Clifford's Happy Easter by Norman Bridwell. Hi, I'm Emily Elizabeth and I love spring. So does my dog Clifford. The best part of springtime is Easter. Last spring, Mom and Dad brought us a lot of Easter eggs to color for the big Easter egg hunt. On the day before Easter, I dyed the eggs. Clifford wanted to help. Poor Clifford, he wasn't very good at painting eggs. So Clifford helped by watching me decorate the eggs. He's a good

watcher. When I went to bed that night, I fell asleep dreaming about Easter eggs. It was a beautiful dream. Clifford was stirring a giant tub of dye while I tossed in the eggs. Clifford lost his balance. He tumbled into the tub of dye. Something surprising began to happen. Suddenly, Clifford was bright green. It was just like St. Patrick's Day. Then he turned sunshine yellow. This was becoming. a very strange dream. I grabbed a brush and began to dab on purple polka dots. Clifford looked good in polka dots, but they didn't last long.

The purple polka dots turned into squares. Then Clifford looked like a giant checkerboard. I didn't like it, so I threw on some more dye. Clifford started to change colors again. Now he was red, white, and blue. I always used to wonder if I dreamed in color. Now I know. This was too much.

I tried to scrub the dye off Clifford. I was getting frantic, and then I woke up. It was Easter morning and the sun was shining. I ran outside to see Clifford. Thank goodness he looked just the same as always. Good old Clifford. We joined my friends and set off on the Easter egg hunt. We looked high, we looked low,

Clifford looked in places I would not have even thought of. No hiding place was missed. Sometimes Clifford went a little too far, But his hard work helped. We ended up with heaps of eggs. We shared with all of our friends. After all, friends are what makes an Easter a happy day. The end.

Make sure you stick around and see if you can answer today's paying attention question. Before you go, do you think you could answer today's paying attention question? Only Elizabeth was dreaming. that Clifford fell into a big tub of Easter egg dye. Do you remember the first color Clifford turned into? If your answer was green, like St. Patrick's Day, you did it, you're right, great job! You sure were paying attention! I hope you enjoyed that story. I wonder what we're going to read next.