In the Land of Stars and Star Fairy Dreamland* 



Little Ted and his mother were out looking at the sky. It was 

 night time, but it was not dark outside for the sky seemed carpeted 

 with stars; big stars and little stars, bright stars and dim stars, 

 some that twinkled and some that gave a steady light. 



The colors also were different, some shone with the red light, 

 some with blue, some with yellow. 



They were so bright and beautiful they looked like millions of 

 electric lights in the sky. 



Brighter than the stars and much larger than the stars shone 

 our relation, the moon. We like the moon the best because she is 

 nearer to us than the other stars and planets, and that is why she 

 looks so very, very big. 



"Mother, is the moon the sun, is it called the moon at night and 

 the sun in the day time?" 



*'0h no ! my child, the sun and moon are very different, the sun 

 is like a great father giving light to his children and grand- children. 



"The eight planets, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, 

 Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, these the Solar system, are the sun's 

 children, and travel around the sun. 



"The moons which travel around the planets are the sun's 

 grand-children. 



"We live on the planet called the Earth and our moon travels 

 around us so she is the Earth's child and we all love to watch her 

 for she really belongs to us. 



"The Sun gives the light to the moon and the planets. Why if 

 it were not for the sun, we would have no light. 



"Look, Ted, at all the star patterns in the sky and they all have 

 names just as you and I have names, and people know their names 

 and wise men have studied about them and have found a way to 

 measure how far away they are and how large they are. 



"Do you know that some of those little bits of stars are much — 

 oh, very much, larger than our sun, but they look so little because 

 they are so very, very far away. Why, our sun is 93,000,000 miles 

 away and it would cost over $2,00(^,000 to take a train ride 

 to the sun." 



"Oh mother, I wish I could visit the sun and the moon and see 

 what they are like." 



*The name of the author of this story has been lost. 



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