The Adventures of Penelope Purple: The Lost Things

The Adventures of Penelope Purple

The Lost Things

Penelope Purple was a great sort of friend. 

She was not tall, she was extremely tall. 

She could reach cookies off the very top shelf and frozen treats from the freezer two feet deep.  

Her hair was perfectly purple and perfectly curled. 

She had violet eyes and lilac freckles. 

In her face you saw all sorts of surprises, the sunrise, and everything wise. 

Because she was so tall Penelope Purple lived in a tall house. 

And to this tall house all of her friends would come.

Today Bekah Blue came to play. 

Bekah Blue loved lots of things. She loved ice cream and loud crunching noises. She loved flowers and bugs. She loved rainy days and sunshine days. She even loved ordinary days. 

But there was one thing about Bekah Blue. She loved and loved but never could keep the things she loved. 

Her favorite blue sweatshirt just vanished. The shiny rocks she found by the river. The nickel from Grandma. The pirate sword for Sunday’s. Even her blue spoon. 

When she arrived at Penelope Purple’s, Bekah Blue was down in the dumps. 

Her blue shoes were gone. Well, just one of them. So, Bekah Blue arrived in one shoe. 

Bekah Blue loved Penelope Purple, so she tried to climb out of the dumps but with one shoe it was not so easy. 

Penelope Purple loved Bekah Blue, so she wanted to help. 

“Maybe with my eyes high in the sky,” said Penelope Purple, “I can look for your one blue shoe.” 

So, Penelope Purple climbed to the top of her tall house. She climbed and climbed and went out on the roof. 

From there she saw so much. She saw biscuits, blueberries, bread, and broccoli. Even a banana split. [In image, these things are a town and she is seeing food.]

But she never saw a blue shoe. 

Instead she heard her tummy rumbling. 

So, she and Bekah Blue, who was still in the dumps, went to the garden. They pulled up carrots and picked tomatoes. The chickens cracked them an egg and bees drizzled their honey.  

It was a yummy yummy lunch. 

After lunch, Penelope Purple was spraying the dishes with the water hose and Bekah Blue was scrubbing them with the leaves from the trees.

When out of the water hose shot a magnet! 

Penelope Purple picked it up and disappeared from Bekah Blue’s view. 

Inside a white cloud was Penelope Purple and the magnet. 

And stuck to the magnet was everything Penelope Purple had ever lost! 

Penelope Purple was quite tidy, so the cloud was rather small. 

But there on the magnet was the barrette she dropped into the ocean, her fishing pole, Grandma’s birthday card, and her purple cowgirl hat. 

Penelope Purple was so excited she yelled to Bekah Blue. 

“Oh, Bekah Blue do come see!” 

But Bekah Blue was stuck. Try as she might when she walked into the cloud it just popped her right back out. 

In fact, she could not even hear the cheerful yells of Penelope Purple. 

Penelope Purple began to miss her friend and poked her head outside of the cloud. 

As soon as she did, the magnet shrank, the cloud popped, and her found things were lost again. 

Bekah Blue could not believe her eyes and Penelope Purple had only words to give her. 

So, Bekah Blue approached the magnet and it shrank to her size.

Inside Bekah Blue’s cloud was, oh, so many things. 

The magnet could not be seen for it was covered in the many things of Bekah Blue’s many days. 

Her blue shoe was there on top. She grabbed it and put it on while jumping with joy. 

Her basketball, the cat’s toy, lots of books, her snazzy blue jumpsuit, all the things she borrowed, a screw driver, even her doll’s hat.

Bekah Blue was overcome with excitement. All the things she loved and lost were here in one place. She settled in and began collecting everything. 

She put on her lost hat and lost sweater. She packed her lost bag with lots of lost things. 

Bekah Blue forgot Penelope Purple while she was so busy gathering things. 

Penelope Purple started to get lonely while she waited for Bekah Blue outside the cloud. 

Penelope Purple hopped on one foot, she talked to the bees, she tasted the grass and did not like it, she stretched her calves, and sighed a lot. 

At last, Bekah Blue burst out of the cloud room with her hands full of lost things. 

But as soon as she began to speak to Penelope Purple, the lost things and the cloud disappeared. 

“Oh no, oh no,” cried Bekah Blue, “I have lost them again.” 

She burst into tears and fell into the dumps once more. 

She and Penelope Purple began to look slowly and closely at the magnet. 

There were small words on the side that they had not seen before. 

Touch me to find the past and the things that were lost. 

But only alone can you follow the past. 

Yesterday’s friends and things cannot mix with today. 

Or Tomorrow. 

Bekah Blue looked at Penelope Purple with her blue eyes. 

“I missed you when I was alone in the cloud,” said Bekah Blue, “All alone I had no one to tell the stories of how I lost the things.” 

Big purple tears ran down Penelope Purple’s lilac freckles. 

“Oh, Bekah Blue, I missed you too! We can find you a better blue shoe!”

Bekah Blue and Penelope Purple gave each other a big hug. 

They went off holding hands to look for a blue shoe and fun things today to do. 

Bekah Blue stopped getting down in the dumps when she lost her things. 

Instead she remembered that the lost things are in yesterday and in yesterday, she would be without her dear Penelope Purple. 

And today with her friend was much better than all the lost things in the world.