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Clarissa the Cow

by Lizzie, Savannah and Jessica

Once upon a time, there lived a 

little cow named Clarissa. She 

lived with her Mooma at the 

end of the street in a pretty 

pink house.

Clarissa was a very lucky little 

cow. She had Mooma, who loved 

her very much. She also had all 

the toys that she could ever want 

to play with in her beautiful 

room. But Clarissa was not 

happy. In fact, Clarissa was very 

mean.

How do I know that she was 

mean? Well, she did not know 

how to share all her toys. Clarissa 

would go out to play with her 

friends, but if her friends tried to 

play with a toy, Clarissa would 

snatch it back and yell, "That's 

mine!"

Clarissa was so afraid that her 

friends would take her toys away 

that she didn't want to play with 

them anymore. She would come 

home from school and go straight 

to her room. She would play with 

her toys all by herself, not going 

out to see any of her friends.

She looked out the window and 

saw all of her friends playing 

with each other and sharing what 

they had, and they were so happy! 

But Clarissa was sad. She didn't 

have any of her friends.

Mooma saw how sad Clarissa 

was, and she knew what to do.

*knock, knock*

Mooma opened the door to 

Clarissa's room. Clarissa looked 

up at Mooma with tears in her 

eyes and said, "Mooma, why 

don't I have any friends?"

Mooma took Clarissa in her 

arms and said, "Oh Clarissa, 

don't you know that when I gave 

you all those beautiful toys that I 

gave them to you to share with 

your friends?

I gave them to you because I

 love you and want you to enjoy 

them, but I told you to share 

them because I know that giving 

them to your friends will make 

you happier than keeping them 

for yourself and playing 

alone ever could."

Clarissa had never thought of 

this before! Could it be that 

sharing her things would make 

her happier than keeping them to 

herself? She did not know, but 

she was willing to try it!

The next day, Clarissa went to 

Paisley the Pig's house to play. 

Paisley had seven brothers and 

seven sisters, and Paisley was the 

fifteenth!

They all shared their toys and 

were very happy, even though 

they didn't have as many as 

Clarissa did. Paisley the pig 

loved to play with her jump rope, 

but so did all of her brothers and 

sisters! 

The oldest of the pig family 

would always play with it first, 

and the youngest would have to 

go last. So Paisley, being the 

youngest out of all of them, 

hardly ever got a turn!

Clarissa remembered what her 

Mooma had said. Maybe she 

could share her jump rope with 

Paisley! Clarissa decided to try. 

"Paisley, would you like to play 

with my jump rope?

Paisley was very surprised. 

Clarissa had never offered to 

share before. Paisley had a big 

smile, "Sure! I would love to 

play with your jump rope. 

We can take turns."

They had such fun playing 

together that they played all day 

long. Clarissa had a friend! Her 

Mooma was right, sharing was 

much more fun than playing on 

your own.

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