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Tone’s Big Drop

Tone the raindrop is wondering what’s way down there on the ground. She and her friend Nyunyu go on a journey to find out.

Suggested age: 4–6岁 · Reading level L2 · 14 illustrated pages

Tone’s Big Drop — original illustrated page 1, English text included

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Tone the raindrop is wondering what’s way down there on the ground. She and her friend Nyunyu go on a journey to find out.

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Tone’s Big Drop — original illustrated page 1, English text included
Tone’s Big Drop
Tone’s Big Drop — original illustrated page 2, English text included
One hot day, little Tone sits with the other cloud droplets and looks down from the sky. Everything looks so interesting from way up here in the clouds. The trees look like little soft green balls. The rivers look like silver ribbons. The mountain tops look like ice cream scoops. The buildings look like little grey boxes.
Tone’s Big Drop — original illustrated page 3, English text included
Tone’s Big Drop — original illustrated page 4, English text included
"What else is down there?" Tone asks her friend Nyunyu. "My daddy says there are people and animals and trees and cars," says Nyunyu. "Wow! So much to see!" says Tone.
Tone’s Big Drop — original illustrated page 5, English text included
As the day carries on, their friend Mr Sun rises higher and higher in the sky until Tone and Nyunyu and the other droplets cannot see her anymore.
Tone’s Big Drop — original illustrated page 6, English text included
Mr Wind comes along whistling a sweet, sweet tune. His whistles blow Tone and Nyunyu and their droplet friends off their cloud. "Brr!" says Tone. It’s getting very cold.
Tone’s Big Drop — original illustrated page 7, English text included
Mr Wind keeps whistling and Tone and Nyunyu and the other droplets fall onto another cloud. Boop! They bounce off the cloud and then fall far, far towards the earth.
Tone’s Big Drop — original illustrated page 8, English text included
"Look at me fall, Nyunyu. I’m going faster than you!" says Tone and she races with Nyunyu to see who will be the fastest. They fall past clouds and birds and very tall buildings.
Tone’s Big Drop — original illustrated page 9, English text included
Down, down, down they go. Faster and faster. "Look at that, Tone. What is it?" says Nyunyu. "Hmm, I see red and orange, yellow and green, blue and purple," says Tone.
Tone’s Big Drop — original illustrated page 10, English text included
"It looks like a big ball!" says Nyunyu.
Tone’s Big Drop — original illustrated page 11, English text included
"It looks like a rainbow!" says Tone.
Tone’s Big Drop — original illustrated page 12, English text included
Down, down, down they fall. "Whee!" "Whee!"
Tone’s Big Drop — original illustrated page 13, English text included
Swoosh! They slide down the big, bouncy, colourful thing. "It’s an umbrella!" shout Tone and Nyunyu.
Tone’s Big Drop — original illustrated page 14, English text included

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Written by
Edna Gicovi
Illustrated by
Musonda Kabwe
Created by
Musonda Kabwe (Illustrator); Robyn Daly (Designer); Monique Whitaker (Editor); Edna Gicovi (Writer)

Source: Book Dash
Original: Tone’s Big Drop from Book Dash
License: CC BY 4.0

Original illustrated spreads and embedded English story text preserved; website layout and printable PDF assembled by Little Leaf. Age, level, theme and recommendation are editorial suggestions. Web and printable layout adapted by Little Leaf. Age and reading-level suggestions are editorial. Original stories and artwork belong to their credited creators. Website narration uses the selected synthetic Voice 7.