Category: Children & Young Adult Reading
The Star People
"Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead and which I don't half know to this day?" --_Thomas Carlyle._
Chapters
4. Part 4
"I'm glad you noticed that," said Uncle Henry. "The astronomers who lived ever so long ago, long before the birth of Christ Jesus, noticed that it looked 'fuzzy,' just as you ha...
3. Part 3"Yes," said Uncle Henry, "and also like Caruso, _Arion_ decided to go home for a visit. Well, on the way to Lesbos the sailors decided to murder _Arion_ and get all the money he...
2. Part 2Since no one else had a better title, the "Society of Star-Gazers," as Paul had named it, let it go at that, and allowed Boötes to persist in his pursuit of the great bear for h...
1. Part 1"Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead and which I don't half know to this day?" --_Thomas Carly...
5. Part 5"Here are four maps of the sky," he said, "which show the way it looks at different seasons at 9 o'clock in the evening--on January 1st, April 1st, July 1st, and October 1st. Yo...