It was summer vacation, and everything was different: Mary Jane didn't have to go to school, and everything she just loved turned into a car -- all the animals, that is.
Mary Jane just loved all sorts of animals. She loved horses,
cows,
and birds.
And she was very sad when they turned into Mustangs,
Mavericks,
and Falcons.
But Leroy was very happy. He followed Mary Jane all over town.
Every time she saw a little pony and just loved it and it turned into a
car, Leroy would jump in that car and drive it round and round.
Soon Leroy and James and Ricky and Raymond and Michael and David and
Penny and Frank and Julie and Desire were looking all over Brockton for
horses and cows and birds to take to Mary Jane so she'd just love them
and they'd turn into cars. Even Miss Morgan went looking for horses and
cows and birds because she was tired of her little green VW.
Everybody wanted a car of their own. Everybody wanted two cars, three
cars, as many cars as they could get. Miss Morgan got ten cars, so many
cars that she had no place to put them; so she stacked them in her front
yard.
These are Miss Morgan's new cars, stacked in her front yard. Colar the horses horse, the cows cow, and the birds bird.
Soon there weren't any horses or cows or birds in all of Brockton. And
Mary Jane was very very sad because she just loved animals. And Leroy and
James and Ricky and Raymond and Michael and David and Penny and Frank and
Julie and Desire and Miss Morgan were sad because they wanted more and
more cares. And Miss Morgan's little green VW was very very sad because
Miss Morgan never drove her anymore.
Mary Jane saw the little green VW crying,
and she felt so sorry for that little green VW that she ran up to it and hugged it and just loved it.
All of a sudden, the little green VW turned into the sweetest little
green animal that Mary Jane had ever seen. Mary Jane could tell by its
tail that it wasn't a horse or a cow or a bird. She had made a brand-new
kind of animal: one that you could ride and that said "moo" when it was
happy, and that had a beak like a bird.
Mary Jane rode the VW all over town. She just loved it so much that she just loved every car that she saw; and every car that she just loved turned into an animal -- until there weren't any cars left in Brockton, just horses and cows and birds and strange new animals, like Darts
and Thunderbirds
and Saabs.
At first everybody in Brockton, except Mary Jane, was very sad,
because nobody had any cars anymore.
Then Mary Jane had a idea. She whispered it to Miss Morgan, and Miss
Morgan told the mayor, and the mayor told the rest of the town. The next
morning, Brockton officially opened as a zoo.
People came from all over the world to see the little green VW and the
Darts and Thunderbirds and Saabs and Comets and Gremlins and other strange
animals. And soon Brockton because the richest town in the whole world.
That fall, Mary Jane rode to school on the little green VW.
And Leroy and James and Ricky and Raymond and Michael and David and Penny and Frank and Julie and Desire and Miss Morgan rode on horses and cows and birds and brand-new animals. And everybody was happy -- especially the animals.
