Tig’s mom is a scientist. She knows things.
Tig’s dad is a writer. He makes things up.
Tig has a globe.
“Mom, if the world is round, why don’t the people on the bottom fall off?”
“Because gravity pulls everyone towards the middle of the Earth.”
“Wherever you go, the Earth feels like it is below you. Unless you go into space. Then there’s no down at all, and you float!”
“People on the other side of the Earth think that they are the right way up…
…and we are upside-down! Isn’t that amazing!”
“Dad, if the world is round, why don’t the people on the bottom fall off?”
“Oh, they used to! A lot of people fell off…
…and ended up on Saturn.”
“But some people got caught in the branches of trees. They climbed up to the ground, and dug tunnels so they could get around without falling.”
“Now they’ve built upside-down houses, and they swing between them on ropes!”
Tig is pretty sure someone is making things up.
But that’s OK.
Credits
Originally published by Book Dash under a Creative Commons Licensed BY 4.0. This book can be read for free on https://bookdash.org/books/tigs-world and was created by: Kitso Sedumedi (Designer), Dorian Dutrieux (Illustrator), Sam Wilson (Writer), Carla Lever (Editor)
