A fire in the jungle. Children's stories about cooperation

A fire in the jungle is a children's story by Marisa Alonso Santamaría that reminds children of a very important value: cooperation. A children's story that teaches children how important it is to help each other. With this story, children will be able to learn why it is necessary for us to collabor

A fire in the jungle is a children's story by Marisa Alonso Santamaría that reminds children of a very important value: cooperation. A children's story that teaches children how important it is to help each other.

With this story, children will be able to learn why it is necessary for us to collaborate together. In addition, it teaches us that sometimes life gives us second chances and we have to take advantage of them. And, in addition to entertaining the children, the stories convey great teachings.

Children's stories about cooperation: A fire in the jungle

That day the two monito brothers were especially unruly, driving everyone crazy with their screams and mischief. They played hide-and-seek behind the trees, to see who shrieked the most, to swing from the highest branches, to somersault in the air. They played happily until lunchtime and then, exhausted from sleep, they fell asleep lying at the foot of a tree.

When the fire started; the birds roared, the lions roared, the hyenas roared, the coyotes howled, the elephants barked, the snakes whistled, the frogs crooned, the bumblebees buzzed, and the little monkeys did not wake up.At dusk, the fire grew and fed quickly with the wind that was blowing that day with force.

The animals crossed their eyes asking for help without knowing where to escape and ran screaming in terror looking for a way out through the flames.

The monkeys began to cough, their eyes were red and they did not know what had happened. There was nothing left of the peaceful landscape they had left behind when they fell asleep. They looked at each other in terror without knowing what to do. His parents were not close. They felt that they lacked the air, it was very hot and, they did not see where to leave due to the intense smoke that was in the environment. The brothers embraced and crouched crying with their backs to the terrifying landscape.

The elephants with their trunks poured water to make the path that led to the lake accessible

. The hippos were removing the steaming fallen logs suffering severe burns. The birds rescued the smallest at the cost of losing their wings. Many animals did their best to help the weak and get out of that tragedy alive.A very scary crocodile, he heard the moans of the monkeys and, although he thought he was running for his life, he went towards them and, seeing them so helpless, climbed the two little brothers on his back and ran towards the lake. On the way, he found a little fawn half asphyxiated and, although he thought about the time he would lose, he bent his huge head so that the animal also climbed on his back to save him. He ran again looking for water and found a bird with burned wings and, again, opened its big jaws and transported the animal while a small mouse and a snake jumped into its mouth.

The flames, the smoke and the ashes prevented to see with clarity the path that took to the lake but, finally, it managed to enter the water just as the fire burned its tail. Suddenly it began to thunder and the rays zigzagged illuminating the earth. The animals looked at the sky begging for rain. And it rained for hours until there was not even a live coal burning. Afterwards, the animals cried sadly and remained silent before such a desolate landscape. The next morning the sun came out and a beautiful rainbow appeared in the sky that crossed the earth from side to side and, then, a small flower grew from the black earth before the eyes of all the animals. The grateful monkeys embraced the fearful crocodile who, overcoming his fear, had saved his life and that of the other animals

and, like little monkeys that were, jumped merrily among the burned trunks attending to the call of their alarmed and happy parents. Life offered them a new opportunity.