Once there was a small grey town beside the grey, grey sea. At the edge of town was a large grey factory. And this large grey factory made ...
So many that the town was called Stockingopolis.
And all of them – short and long, fancy and plain – were grey too!
Everyone in Stockingopolis was happy.
They worked hard farming and knitting and delivering …
… because the famous Stockingopolis stockings were worn by people all over the world!
But Ben and Lucy weren’t happy. They lived in Stockingopolis and they were bored of grey towns, grey skies, grey sheep and grey stockings!
They loved the bursts of colour when the trees and flowers began to bloom.
They loved it when the sun shone brightly and the sky was the bluest blue.
They even looked forward to the wet days, because there was always the chance of a rainbow.
Lucy and Ben wished they could bring these colours into their small grey town. So they grabbed their paints and decided to make a change, just a small one …
or two!