Splash!Zzebbraa goes

Z z e b b r a a a d v e n t u r e s f o r c u r i o u s c r e a t u r e s - b y H a n n a h To f t s

Zzebbraa goes Splash!

For the girls... Sacha, Michiko en Poppy

Written and Illustrated by Hannah Tofts

Edited by Sally Ratcliffe

Translated by Ana Bishop

Designed by Jan Battem

Prepress by Litho Partners BV

Printed by Proost NV

Published by Roland Pelle & Henriëtte van der Mark

All rights reserved

First published in The Netherlands, 2002

by Heliris Publishing BV, Amsterdam

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Illustrations copyright © 2002 Hannah Tofts

(drawn, painted and collaged by hand)

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of Hannah Tofts

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Z z e b b r a a f o r c u r i o u s c r e a t u r e s

P U B L I S H I N GH E L I R I S

Zzebbraa goes

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. . .a s tor y about water

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Zzebbraa was cur ious . . . the c louds were p lay ing

h ide and seek w i th the sun .

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His nose went co ld and h is ta i l sh i vered .

Zzebbraa l ooked up .

A ver y b ig c loud hovered above .

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A drop o f water sp lashed

onto Zzebbraa ’s nose .

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Splash!

Sudden l y the b ig c loud empt ied over Zzebbraa .

He was wet f rom nose to ta i l .

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Zzebbraa looked down. He saw spark l ing pudd les

a l l around h im, ready for jump ing into . . .

ready. . . s teady. . . . . .

Zzebbraa j umped in to the

b iggest pudd le o f them a l l .

Splash!

The sp lashes landed ever ywhere

and spr ink led over f l owers .

Zzebbraa watched the sp lashes

tr i ck le i n to s t reams. . .

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. . . the sp lash - f i l l ed s t reams

f l owed in to r i vers . . .

. . .and the r i vers poured in to the sea .

Zzebbraa j umped onto the b iggest wave !

!~!~!~

After a wh i l e , the wave t i pped Zzebbraa

onto a sandy beach faraway.

The sun was sh in ing br ight l y and there were

no c louds in the sky. I t was l ove l y and hot . . .

. . .maybe a b i t too hot .

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Zzebbraa cou ldn ’ t see the sea anymore. . . no r i vers,

no streams, no pudd les, no sp lashes at a l l .

Just then Zzebbraa ’s nose fe l t co ld

and h is ta i l sh i vered .

Zzebbraa l ooked up .

A l i t t l e c loud had found h im.

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Sudden l y the l i t t l e c loud showered

coo l i ng ra in a l l over Zzebbraa .

The water spark led . . .

Splash!Splash!

Splash!

Zzebbraa was happy. . . he ’d found pudd les aga in ,

ready to sp lash in to !

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ear w

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hen you go spl ashi ng!

ready... steady... go!

!!!

Zzebbraa for cur ious creatures . . . Are you a cur ious creature too?

Fo l l ow Zzebbraa on h i s water adventure

and d iscover c louds , seas , r i vers and lo ts

o f pudd les to sp lash ! i n to .

Fur ther adventures w i th Zzebbraa :

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