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.
“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.
As the day carries on, their friend Ms Sun
rises higher and higher in the sky until Tone
and Nyunyu and the other droplets cannot
see her anymore.
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.
Mr Wind keeps whistling and Tone and Nyunyu
and the other droplets fall onto another cloud.
They bounce off the cloud and then fall far, far
towards the earth.
“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.
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.
“It looks like a big ball!” says Nyunyu.
“It looks like a rainbow!” says Tone.
Down,
down,
down they fall.
“Whee!”
“Whee!”
Swoosh!
They slide down the big, bouncy, colourful thing.
“It’s an umbrella!” shout Tone and Nyunyu.
Tone's Big Drop
