Who Turned The World Grey?

Collaborative Books

Babar, Mingming, and their friends turned the green world of GAIA into a big grey mess! (FRENCH TRANSLATION: Pauline)

The happy and healthy sea life became sick and turned grey.&#160; (JAPANESE TRANSLATION: Fooka)

By: Pre-K C and High School Mother Tongue Club

All of a sudden, fishermen caught sick salmon, tuna, and urchin from the grey Great Ma&#8217;an Ocean. Babar and Mingming ate the grey sea creatures and they themselves also became grey. (SPANISH TRANSLATION: Maria)

Slowly, the beautiful blue color of the Great Ma&#8217;an Ocean faded away and turned grey and colorless. (CHINESE TRANSLATION: Reang - Grade 2)

One fine day, Babar and Mingming were walking down Mallow Street in the green land of GAIA. Babar had a water bottle and Mingming had her snacks in a plastic bag.&#160; (HEBREW TRANSLATION: Daphna)

After finishing his drink, Babar threw his bottle in Emerald River, next to Mallow Street because there were no trash cans nearby. Mingming did the same after she finished her snacks. They were literally littering! (ARABIC TRANSLATION: Areen)

Story written by High School Mother Tongue Club, Illustrations by PreK C Class Translation by Modern Language and EAL Classes Edited by Christine, Ryan, Michele Greek Translation by IONNIS

All the plastic trash thrown into Emerald River flowed down to the Great Ma&#8217;an Ocean, where the fish, turtles, seals, and whales made their homes. (KOREAN TRANSLATION: Suhyun)

All the animals and humans turned back to their colors and lived happily ever after. The End. (NORWEGIAN TRANSLATION: Hedda)

Everyday, Babar and Mingming went past Mallow Street and threw plastic bottles and caps, plastic bags, plastic knives, paper cups, and plastic straws into Emerald River.&#160; Ten years went by&#8230; (RUSSIAN TRANSLATION: Anastasia)

The two felt badly for what they did to the world and decided to clean up the plastic bottles and caps, plastic bags, plastic knives, paper cups, and plastic straws with others who wanted to help. (GERMAN TRANSLATION by: Philipp)

Another 10 years passed and the world was able to return to its colorful and clean self by the help of Babar, Mingming, and their friends. (TURKISH TRANSLATION: Melisa)

This book is dedicated to WBAIS GAIA Program for helping our community stay green.

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