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Star People

Chapter 3: ILLUSTRATIONS
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About This Book

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.

ILLUSTRATIONS

Star People and the Jane Ellen Frontispiece
 
They watched with her 4
 
Tom Green’s Chanty 26
 
Everybody watched him go up and up 30
 
“Oh, dear Taffy, let me take care of the Sailor’s Star” 38
 
Draco 46
 
A more rascally comet you wouldn’t care to see 50
 
Orion 56
 
Orion’s Dogs and Little Bear 64
 
“Shall we not walk together, sir?” 70
 
Cassiopeia 76
 
“Why, I thought you were a wagon,” he said, “but where are your hortheth?” 86
 
Andromeda 98
 
They thought only of their flight 116
 
His wondering eyes looked from Lady Moon’s shoulder 124
 
The small round shadow passed on across the bright lantern of the moon 130
 
Three Orions couldn’t have stopped them 146
 
Little Bear stopped by the bush 154
 
He found Merope sitting alone 180
 
The sisters were dancing—the very prettiest and most twirly of the “Sailor’s Knots” 190
 
Down the channel he came flying 210
 
Standing lightly on the yards, high, high in the air, the twin brothers Castor and Pollux 216