ReadOasis Step 2

The Stone Baby was lonesome. He looked over the cold, gray city from the side of a great building. But he could not move. This was the place where he had to stay forever.

Then he said to himself: "When it was summer, I could see the children at their windows and in the streets, but now they keep inside. Now I cannot even see one happy child, playing and laughing."

"I'd like to see the green grass in the city center and the boys sailing boats on the pond. I'd like to see the l...