Shadow the Cloud and Ripples the Frog — Ann Ferry

Shadow the Cloud and Ripples the Frog is a book in the Rainbow Arches Nursery School Series. This story about Shadow the Cloud and Ripples the Frog explores the ability of discovering the depth of friendship when times are difficult. The loyalty of a good friend sustains us when times are challenging, when the storms of life blow long and hard. Friendship ensures we are never truly alone. Such support helps us to take risks. Such support helps us to find our inner wings so we can move along and maybe even fly. This story takes us again to the Rainbow Arches Nursery School in the sky located just above Featherwood Forest that stands at the edge of the Village of Ticklefield. There, Mrs. Cloudburst teaches her little Clouds that all things in the sky and all things of the earth are strongly connected. She makes sure that her students learn that lesson at a very young age. Homework is simple and yet its purpose is intended to have a profound impact. This story describes how Shadow the Cloud makes a difference on his way home from the Rainbow Arches Nursery School when he notices Ripples the Frog and Maisey the Butterfly are in trouble in the middle of the storm. Witty the wise old owl who sits atop the highest tree of FeatherwoodForest, is happy to know that the animals in FeatherwoodForest learn that they are connected to one another, responsible for the life of the forest and accountable to leave the forest a better place by having lived there.