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Through imaginative verses, the brother imagines curses, sky-cleaning old women, and silly disasters that explain gravity in storybook ways. The conversation contrasts these ideas with what books have “said,” introducing an alternative tale centered on lost everyday items. The result blends curiosity, humor, and mythic problem-solving around family life.","Sister, Sister, Why Don’t Things Fall Up?  \nAuthor: Roopa Pai  \nIllustrator: Greystroke  \nEnglish Story Book  \nSister, Sister, Why Don’t Things  \nFall Up?  \nAuthor: Roopa Pai  \nIllustrator: Greystroke Reformatted for Bloom By: Cara Ediger  \nPratham Books  \nEnglish  \nSister, Sister, Why Don’t Things Fall Up?  \nAuthor: Roopa Pai  \nIllustrator: Greystroke  \nCopyright © 2005, Pratham Books  \nYou are free to make commercial use of this work. You may adapt and add to this work. You must keep the copyright and credits for authors, illustrators, etc.  \nSister, sister, I wonder…  \nWhat do you wonder, little brother,  \nWhat do you wonder?  \nI wonder, I wonder, why things don’t fall up.  \nWhat do you think, little brother,  \nWhat do you think? I think, I think…  \nTell me, little brother, what do you think?  \nI think  \nThat long ago, things did fall up  \nThat the sky was full of toffee wrappers And ice cream sticks  \nThat stars slipped on banana peels That sometimes, the moon cut her dainty feet  \nOn bits of broken glass Or caught her trailing silver skirts On a rusty nail.  \nI think  \nThe old woman who lives in the sky Got so tired of cleaning the mess That she put a curse on the earth; And things have fallen down ever since . I think that’s why things don’t fall up Because the old woman in the sky Was fed up of living in a smelly pigsty. I’m clever, aren’t I, sister?  \nOh yes, you are, little brother, And maybe you’re right, too… But in the books that I have read That is not what they said.  \nThen what did they say, sister, What did they say?  \nWhat do you think, little brother,  \nWhat do you think? 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