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Star Children Story
Father
sun and mother moon had many children, and those children were the
stars. Father sun was wise and kind and good. Mother moon and father sun
loved their children so. When the star children were old enough they
carried yellow lamps to help light the night sky with their mother moon
for all those on earth to see.
One evening several stars wanted to play instead of helping their mother
light up the earth. They had worked especially hard during those long
cold winter nights when the people and animals were sleeping.
One winter night they forgot to twinkle and instead ran off and played
in the nighttime sky. They pretended not to hear their mother calling
and calling her children to help light up the nighttime sky. The star
children hid behind a fluffy cloud.
Suddenly a warm Chinook wind began to blow. The wind blew with huge
gusts. The trees groaned as the wind pushed their trunks and limbs. The
gusty wind reached the sky and found the star children’s hiding place
behind a cloud and all of a sudden those poor star children lost their
balance. They tumbled far, far, far down to the earth below. They were
blown right out of the nighttime sky.
When they reached the earth below, they looked up at the dark sky. Maybe
the sky was darker because they no longer lived in the sky. The star
children became frightened, for they were lost. They called out to their
father sun and mother moon to ask for help. They wanted to come home to
the sky. In the morning, father sun heard his children call. He said he
was so sorry, “Once twinkling stars leave the sky, my dear children,
they are not able to return”. He promised the children he would think of
something.
The poor star children were so lonely; they missed their mother moon and
father sun. Mother moon also missed her children but she found a way to
comfort all. Every night she sang. “Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I
wonder where you are…” The earth children must of heard this song
because all the children of the earth sang with her.
Finally spring came to the earth. Wise father sun looked down at the
brown spring ground. Father sun decided to bring some color to the
spring earth. He beamed his golden light down to his star children and
gave them into little golden flower lamps to light the earth. The
children were happy to hold the little lamps and bring happiness and
color to earth. These flowers became known as the dandelion flowers.
Wise father earth found a way that the little star children could visit
their mother and father. After the yellow petals of the dandelion fade,
littler white hairs form on the flower, which are so light they, blow
all the way up to the sky to visit mother moon and father sun when a
warm wind blows.
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Twinkle,
twinkle little star,
How I wonder where you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky,
Twinkle, twinkle little star,
How I wonder where you are.
Dandelion Song
Dandelion yellow is gold, what do you do
all day?
I wait and I wait in the long green grass
Till my hair grows long and white
Dandelion, yellow is gold, what do you do all night?
I wait and I wait in the tall green grass
Till my hair grows long and white.
And what do you do when your hair grows white
And the children come out to play?
They pick me up with their dimpled hands and they blow my white hair
away.
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