That night, Cocoa felt very alone. He watched the moon reflect on the river where his family was sleeping, half-in, half-out of the water. He curled his tail around himself and fell asleep on his dry rock.
in a wide, muddy river, there lived a small crocodile named Cocoa.
One day, Papa Crocodile pulled Cocoa aside. “Son,” he said gently, “you have to learn to swim. Your tail is made for the water. Your scales are made for the water. Your heart is a crocodile heart.”
And every night, the little firefly would fly across the river just to blink goodnight to the crocodile who didn’t like water – but had the biggest heart in the whole swamp.
Cocoa climbed onto his favorite rock, shook the water from his ears, and said, “I did. But not because I learned to love the water.”
Cocoa looked down at his feet. “But Papa,” he whispered, “my heart doesn’t like the water. It likes the sun. It likes the quiet. It likes to watch the clouds.”
Here is the complete story of El Cocodrilo que no le Gustaba el Agua . The Crocodile Who Didn’t Like Water
