SPORT OF READING - PINK 01

George is about eight inches tall. She is the biggest grasshopper I've ever seen. She lives in our backyard. It's a bit unusual to have a grasshopper in your backyard when you live in a 24 floor apartment building in Chicago.

When I come home from school, I go around to the backyard and say hello to George.

George is very smart. She has talent. She can dance and make music. I don't know how she does it; she just does. When I visited George this afternoon, she had invented her own little set of drums. She had gathered some stones, a stick, and a small metal disk from a can. She put it all together and started to play.

"Hey George, I never knew you could play the drums."

"Oh, I thought you knew I was in the Giant Grasshopper Band."

"In the Grasshopper Band? You mean there are other grasshoppers like you?"

"Oh, yeah. There's a whole city of us called Grasshopper City."

Do you believe this story?