Yellow Earth, Brown Earth Author: Sanjana Kapur Illustrator: Debasmita Dasgupta
2/11 Avi wakes up early. It is a good day. Avi is visiting Yellow Earth today. Yellow flowers, Avi makes bunches. dried-up flowers, tiny flowers. Yellow flowers—
3/11 Avi looks for the perfect stick to poke the earth with. Smooth stick Avi keeps looking for treasures. bumpy stick. Smooth stick—
4/11 Avi collects seeds. Brown seeds, black seeds, red seeds, green seeds. Brown seeds, black seeds— Yellow Earth is a happy place.
5/11 Avi is visiting Grey Earth today. Big puddle, small puddle, no puddle. Big puddle, small puddle—
6/11 Grey Earth is a wet place. Drip! Drop! Plish! Drip—
7/11 Avi is visiting Brown Earth today. CRUNCH crunch CRUNCH crunch— Avi stomps on the dry ground.
8/11 Avi smiles at the bright sun. Long cloud, round cloud, thin cloud. Long cloud— Brown Earth is a joyful place.
9/11 Avi watches the Earth change every year. Yellow Earth, Grey Earth, Brown Earth—
10/11 Avi is looking for a stick. Off to Yellow Earth again!
11/11 Patterns Are All Around Us The day, the week, the month and the year — all have patterns that repeat. The seasons change every year and come back the same way. Every year, winter is followed by summer, which is followed by the monsoon. Look around you and try to spot these patterns. Go back to the beginning of the book and look for patterns you might have missed.
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This is a Level 2 book for children who recognize familiar words and can read new words with help. (English) Yellow Earth, Brown Earth Avi is an explorer. A cloud-watcher, a seed-sorter and a puddlesplasher. Travel to Avi’s favourite place — the Earth — in this book about noticing and recognising patterns. Pratham Books goes digital to weave a whole new chapter in the realm of multilingual children's stories. Knitting together children, authors, illustrators and publishers. Folding in teachers, and translators. To create a rich fabric of openly licensed multilingual stories for the children of India and the world. Our unique online platform, StoryWeaver, is a playground where children, parents, teachers and librarians can get creative. Come, start weaving today, and help us get a book in every child's hand!