Nunu and the Sea

SPEAKER_1 (0:01)

This is Believe, One Network, Every Topic, Everywhere.

Lisa Bueno (0:07)

Okay, our friends, so today we are going to read a story for you. If you are a kid who has big, big feelings, have you ever had a feeling so big you don't know what to do with it?

Of course, we all have feelings like that. And there's lots of different ways that you can respond.

Philip (0:30)

When my mom or my friend or my dad or one of my cousins or one. So if someone annoys me really, really, really a lot.

Lisa Bueno (0:42)

You get frustrated?

Philip (0:44)

Yeah, especially when there's someone at my jujitsu class and I can't beat them in a match. There's this thing I do called Godzilla mode.

Lisa Bueno (0:58)

Whoa, tell me about Godzilla mode.

Philip (1:01)

After the story.

Lisa Bueno (1:02)

Okay, we'll discuss it after the story. So I would love to ask you a question. When you are feeling these big things, these big feelings, do you ever think to yourself, I want to make something? Do you ever feel creative? You have made a mode that you go into, right? Well today, we're going to read about a girl. This little girl is going to experience some big emotions. And I can't wait for you to see what she does with them. Are you ready?

Okay. Today's story is called Nunu and the Sea. The story was written by Isabella Kung.

And it's read today by Mommy and...

Philip (1:50)

Philip.

Lisa Bueno (1:51)

Philip, are you ready?

Okay. Nunu doesn't understand.

And in the picture, we see Nunu and she looks furious. She's really upset. And she's going into her room. Her chest pounds, her head burns, her heart rips. And so we see her. She has slammed her bedroom door. She goes, ah!

And she goes to her desk and throws things on the ground. And then she takes something special. It looks like it's a little origami house. When I say origami, I mean something that's made out of paper that's been folded in such a way that it looks like something else. And this is a piece of paper that's been folded to look like a house. And she rips it apart. And it's all too much. She's laying on her back. She has shredded some things. She's crying. She looks really, really upset.

Right? But it looks like maybe she does origami because there's an origami boat and there's an origami crane. Right? In the picture as well. And so she sails away. Okay, so her imagination has built.

Philip (3:17)

With the world's biggest piece of paper, she made a boat.

Lisa Bueno (3:21)

She has built a rainstorm from her tears. And she has taken her origami boat and put it into the water. And it has grown big enough that she can jump into it. And so she has. And through the waves of her sadness from the crying, she sails. The sea is mighty. The sea is shifting. The sea is boundless. And she sails away in her ship that she has made. The sea is empty, right? It's just her tears. But we can see little bits and pieces of the paper that she ripped up, right? Floating in the water. Nunu is alone. Hello?

Anyone? She shouts. But we can see all around her are those bits of paper that she's ripped up and thrown into the water. But she does look alone, right? Or so she thinks.

She'd also grabbed her backpack.

When she got into this boat and inside of her backpack was that paper crane that jumps out and then gives her a little kiss and shows her that she also has a book in her backpack. And so Nunu decides to make more paper origami creatures. And so she does. And more.

She's got a dragonfly and a butterfly and more. And a squirrel and maybe a fox and all these different creatures made from paper. And suddenly the boat is too small.

She's got tons of critters in there, doesn't she? Nunu bravely lets go of what keeps her afloat. And she takes her boat and rips it up to create something different. And what is she creating, you ask? It's a sea turtle. And so in this something new...

Philip (5:42)

And all her origami friends are flying off and floating around and following her.

Lisa Bueno (5:47)

They are following her, right?

Philip (5:49)

I'm kind of worried about that giant elephant.

Lisa Bueno (5:52)

Well, the sea recedes. Do you know what it means to recede? It means to pull back, to pull away. So the sea recedes and the sea reveals and the sea reflects. So she takes a minute and she looks at what she's come through and what she has done and her creations, right? And Nunu understands now.