I believe the book was named, ” Don’t jump in the puddles.” I do remember some of the verbiage. “It was a rainy, rainy day, but I wanted go out and play. Mom said okay, but don’t jump in the puddles. I walked through the puddles, I ran through the puddles, I even stuck my hands in the puddles, but I did not jump in the puddles.”
It was a blue paperback children’s short story.
Mid to late 90s.
Any chance it’s in this book? Published 2005 but might have been an earlier edition as well.
Poems to Learn to Read by: Building Literacy with Love 1st Edition
by Betty S Bardige Ed.D. (Author), Marilyn M Segal (Author)
https://www.gryphonhouse.com/books/details/poems-to-learn-to-read-by
The poem is in the above book.
The original book is probably the 1991 “Do Not Jump in the Puddles” by Bardige & Segal. Published by Jostens Learning.