One day Emily went out into her yard. It was dry out in her yard. It had not rained for days and days. The trees needed rain. The flowers needed rain. The grass needed rain.

“It is dry out here,” said Emily to her dog. “I need to help. I need to think about what I can do.” Emily sat down by one of the trees in her yard.

After a little while she said, “I know what to do. I will be a cloud.” Emily went and got her magic nickel.

“Cloud, cloud, cloud,” she said. Poof! Emily was a cloud. “This feels cool,” said Emily the cloud to her dog as she floated above her yard. Her dog looked a little sad.

“Do you want to be a cloud, too?” she asked. Her dog wagged its tail and looked happy.

“OK,” said Emily the cloud. She put her cloud hand on the magic nickel. “My dog is a cloud, my dog is a cloud, my dog is a cloud.”

Poof! Emily’s dog was a cloud. It wagged its cloud tail and seemed to like being a cloud. “Now let’s go get some water. Come with me,” said Emily the cloud. She flew up into the sky with her dog the cloud right behind her. They flew over dry land. On and on they went. After a little while they were over the ocean.

 “We will fill up with water here,” said Emily the cloud. She could see other clouds filling up with water over the ocean. “See those clouds,” she said to her dog the cloud. “The sun shines on the water in ocean and some of the water goes up into the air. It becomes clouds. Those clouds will go over the land. The water will then fall out of them as rain.”