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During an errand to the store, Aminata is unexpectedly struck in the face by a bright red ball played with by some boys. The incident causes her to cry out loudly, attracting the attention of her neighbors. She then runs home in distress, her fear amplified by the encounter. The story highlights a child's perception of danger and the anxieties that arise from misunderstood information.","Aminata and the Red Spiky Ball  \nEnglish  \nCopyright © 2021, SIL International and SIL LEAD, Inc.  \n[http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)  \nYou are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work, but you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nOriginal story for African context funded by All Children Reading A Grand Challenge for Development  \nAminata and the Red Spiky Ball  \nWritten by Hazel Large  \nIllustrated for Asia by Chandra Kurniawan  \nThis version of the Aminata book series is funded by SIL International and SIL LEAD, Inc.  \nEnglish  \nAminata was a very curious girl. She liked to listen to the things that grownups say, especially when they didn’t know she could hear them . Sometimes she heard them say good things. Sometimes she heard bad things, and sometimes she heard things that make her afraid.  \nOne day, Aminata heard her mother and grandmother talking about a sickness that comes from a red spiky ball. Some people got very very sick and some people died. Aminata became very scared. She started looking everywhere for the spiky ball so that she could run away before it made her sick.  \nThat afternoon, Aminata’s mother sent her to buy some oil. As she walked to the store, Aminata looked carefully for the red spiky ball, but she didn’t see it. After buying the oil, Aminata began walking home . On the way, she saw some boys playing. Suddenly, their bright red ball shot forward and hit Aminata in the face . She began to scream .  \nShe screamed so loudly that the neighbours all stopped what they were doing to see what was happening. 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