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Star People

Chapter 2: TO THREE LITTLE KATHARINES
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A series of whimsical episodes follows a Princess and her companions—Prudence, Pat, and the Kitten—as they journey into an imagined sky aboard a small sailing vessel, meeting personified stars, comets, the moon, constellations, and creatures such as a Bee Baby and Little Bear. Each chapter offers a self-contained adventure that mixes playful spectacle, mild peril, and gentle lessons, from mischievous comets and celestial circuses to birthday revelries and travelers’ tales, building toward a confrontation with a selfish antagonist and closing with a reflective epilogue illustrated for young readers.

TO THREE LITTLE KATHARINES

Oh, Katharines three,
Come sail with me
Where the ship of my Fancy flies!
We’ll wander free
Over land and sea,
Then sail away to the skies.
If I were a star,
So far—so far—
From this Earth where the children dwell,
My twinkliest beam
For that ship should gleam;
And my truest secret I’d tell
To the eyes that look
Through fancy.—No book
Nor telescope serves so well.