The Best Summer Ever (4 page)

“They can use my star if they like,” little Jumping Mouse said.

“Good.”

“Do stars move?” Raccoon asked.

“They do. But they are so far away you cannot see them move.”

“How do you know so much?” Chameleon asked.

“Because I am Starman.”

“Why do you give away stars?”

“Because it makes me happy. And it makes you happy. And I think it makes the stars happy, too.”

They sat quietly in the dark.

Then little Jumping Mouse said, “We can sing you a song about stars, if you like.”

“I would like,” Starman said.

They sang:

“Twinkle, twinkle, little star,

How I wonder what you are.

Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky.”

They each sang to their own star, as if it were the only one in the sky. And Starman was right.

Frog was happy.

And he thought his star was happy, too.

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