Sky Still Laughs, The (and Cries, Too)

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.


The Sky Still Laughs (and Cries, Too) is a lyrical, funny, and deeply emotional fable about the vast blue above us-not as empty air, but as a living soul with a heart that laughs, cries, and aches.

For eons, the Sky was silent, an unnoticed backdrop to suns, moons, and stars. But one dawn, it discovered it could smile-and everything beneath it changed. Rainbows became its giggles, thunder its belly laughs, storms its messy sobs, and sunsets its blushes of shy affection. The Sky played with children, shaped clouds into castles, tickled humans with wind, and turned rain into tender tears.

Yet joy brings pain as its shadow. The Sky grows wounded when people stop looking upward, crushed under towers, pollution, and neglect. Sometimes its heartbreak bursts into fury-tornadoes like temper tantrums, hurricanes like sobbing fits too large to contain. And still, it never stops yearning to be seen, to be loved, to bring laughter to the world below.

Across ten sweeping chapters blending poetry, humor, and aching tenderness, this tale follows the Sky's journey: from discovering the wonder of expression, to bruises of loneliness and smoke, to storms of therapy and the quiet insecurities of night. And in its lowest moments, salvation comes not from nations or towers-but from the simple voice of a child who remembers to look up, shout hello, and remind the heavens they are still loved.

Funny, poignant, and full of wonder, The Sky Still Laughs (and Cries, Too) is both a cosmic fairy tale and a mirror for our own human hearts. Its lesson is simple but eternal: to live is to laugh and to weep in equal measure, and no matter how often we feel unseen-we are never unloved.

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Sky Still Laughs, The (and Cries, Too)

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.


The Sky Still Laughs (and Cries, Too) is a lyrical, funny, and deeply emotional fable about the vast blue above us-not as empty air, but as a living soul with a heart that laughs, cries, and aches.

For eons, the Sky was silent, an unnoticed backdrop to suns, moons, and stars. But one dawn, it discovered it could smile-and everything beneath it changed. Rainbows became its giggles, thunder its belly laughs, storms its messy sobs, and sunsets its blushes of shy affection. The Sky played with children, shaped clouds into castles, tickled humans with wind, and turned rain into tender tears.

Yet joy brings pain as its shadow. The Sky grows wounded when people stop looking upward, crushed under towers, pollution, and neglect. Sometimes its heartbreak bursts into fury-tornadoes like temper tantrums, hurricanes like sobbing fits too large to contain. And still, it never stops yearning to be seen, to be loved, to bring laughter to the world below.

Across ten sweeping chapters blending poetry, humor, and aching tenderness, this tale follows the Sky's journey: from discovering the wonder of expression, to bruises of loneliness and smoke, to storms of therapy and the quiet insecurities of night. And in its lowest moments, salvation comes not from nations or towers-but from the simple voice of a child who remembers to look up, shout hello, and remind the heavens they are still loved.

Funny, poignant, and full of wonder, The Sky Still Laughs (and Cries, Too) is both a cosmic fairy tale and a mirror for our own human hearts. Its lesson is simple but eternal: to live is to laugh and to weep in equal measure, and no matter how often we feel unseen-we are never unloved.

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Sky Still Laughs, The (and Cries, Too)

Sky Still Laughs, The (and Cries, Too)

by Talli

Narrated by Digital Voice Adam Stone E

Unabridged — 11 minutes

Sky Still Laughs, The (and Cries, Too)

Sky Still Laughs, The (and Cries, Too)

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Overview

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.


The Sky Still Laughs (and Cries, Too) is a lyrical, funny, and deeply emotional fable about the vast blue above us-not as empty air, but as a living soul with a heart that laughs, cries, and aches.

For eons, the Sky was silent, an unnoticed backdrop to suns, moons, and stars. But one dawn, it discovered it could smile-and everything beneath it changed. Rainbows became its giggles, thunder its belly laughs, storms its messy sobs, and sunsets its blushes of shy affection. The Sky played with children, shaped clouds into castles, tickled humans with wind, and turned rain into tender tears.

Yet joy brings pain as its shadow. The Sky grows wounded when people stop looking upward, crushed under towers, pollution, and neglect. Sometimes its heartbreak bursts into fury-tornadoes like temper tantrums, hurricanes like sobbing fits too large to contain. And still, it never stops yearning to be seen, to be loved, to bring laughter to the world below.

Across ten sweeping chapters blending poetry, humor, and aching tenderness, this tale follows the Sky's journey: from discovering the wonder of expression, to bruises of loneliness and smoke, to storms of therapy and the quiet insecurities of night. And in its lowest moments, salvation comes not from nations or towers-but from the simple voice of a child who remembers to look up, shout hello, and remind the heavens they are still loved.

Funny, poignant, and full of wonder, The Sky Still Laughs (and Cries, Too) is both a cosmic fairy tale and a mirror for our own human hearts. Its lesson is simple but eternal: to live is to laugh and to weep in equal measure, and no matter how often we feel unseen-we are never unloved.


Product Details

BN ID: 2940194913749
Publisher: Talli
Publication date: 08/20/2025
Edition description: Unabridged
Age Range: 5 - 8 Years
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