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When he gives his smile away, it returns unchanged, even as it leaps across the garden to his sad friend Zanele, then bounces outward to lift the postman’s mood and warm a weary old man despite the wet weather. Through simple scenes of sharing kindness, the book explores how joy can be passed on without being lost.","Sizwe’s Smile  \nWriter: Vianne Venter  \nIllustration: Genevieve Terblanche and Lauren Rycroft  \nEnglish Story Book  \nSizwe’s Smile  \nWriter: Vianne Venter  \nIllustration: Genevieve Terblanche and Lauren Rycroft Reformatted for Bloom By: Cara Ediger [Bookdash.org](Bookdash.org)  \nEnglish  \nSizwe’s Smile  \nWriter: Vianne Venter  \nIllustration: Genevieve Terblanche and Lauren Rycroft  \nLanguage: English  \nBook Dash is a movement of volunteers working to create open-licensed books for young readers, and get these into the hands of children. See more [at www.bookdash.org](at www.bookdash.org).  \nSaide, South African Institute for Distance Education [www.africanstorybook.org](www.africanstorybook.org)  \nA Saide Initiative  \nCopyright © 2014, Vianne Venter, Genevieve Terblanche, Lauren Rycroft and [bookdash.org](bookdash.org)  \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.  \nThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) Version 3.0 Unported Licence Disclaimer: You are free to download, copy, translate or adapt this story and use the illustrations as long as you attribute or credit the original author/s and illustrator/s.  \nIt had been raining for days, and everyone was grumpy. Everyone except Sizwe, who woke up with a smile every morning.  \n“Yoh! Sizwe! That smile is magic!” said Gogo.“Is it for me?” Sizwe clapped his hand over his mouth.“But it’s MY smile, Gogo,” he whispered.  \nHis mother laughed.“Sizwe! A smile is something you can give away without losing it. Look!”  \nShe lifted him up to the mirror. There was his smile, just as bright as before.  \nIt was time to go out. Mama buttoned up Sizwe’s raincoat, and off they went, through the rain, to the library.  \nDown the street, Sizwe’s best friend Zanele stood at the window of her house, looking sadly at the rain.  \nSizwe felt his smile creeping, creeping up. Before he knew it, his smile LEAPT out, and flew across the garden to Zanele.  \nZanele held on tightly to the smile – it was far too precious to let it get away.  \nAs Sizwe walked away to the library, Zanele’s doorbell rang. It was the postman, with a letter from her favourite cousin.  \nZanele was so happy, that the smile bounced up, and beamed out at the postman.“Thank you, Mister Postman!”she said.  \nZanele’s smile was the brightest thing the postman had seen all morning. It kept him warm as he trudged off through the rain.  \nHe came to a big house . Inside the gate, a dog was spinning around in circles, barking, barking, barking. He was so silly, that the postman couldn’t help smiling.  \nThe smile bounced through the gate with a glitter of glee.  \nThe dog stopped barking. He pricked up his ears and wagged his tail. Then he turned and ran back to the house with the precious, warm smile.  \nA bent old man opened the door .“Oh, no! You can’t come inside. You’re all wet!” he told the dog. 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