Pines and Plains Libraries

Dora and Boots try to get Little Star home after a comet knocks him out of the sky so everyone can make a good-night wish.

When five-year-old Sulwe's classmates make fun of her dark skin, she tries lightening herself to no avail, but her encounter with a shooting star helps her understand there is beauty in every shade.

The Super Wings travel with a young Italian girl to the stars to find a lost constellation.

A sleepless night turns into a marvelous adventure through the stars in this dreamy bedtime story. It's the kind of night when you just can't fall asleep. You feel as though everyone in the world is asleep but you. "Oh, I see a light! Is somebody awake?" Brimming with wonder and enchantment, award-winning author-illustrator Sang-Keun Kim's Star Fishing imagines who else might be awake on a sleepless night--taking young readers and listeners on an...

A child relates some of the wondrous tales told by an old man who once found a falling star and stood at the end of a rainbow.

"Going to bed each night can be dark and scary. The night sky stretches out endlessly, making one sensitive child feel small in comparison. So Dad comes up with a plan: a night of camping out in the desert. Together, the two load up Darlin', the old pickup truck, and drive over the mountain with the radio on, stopping to shoot the breeze at a junkyard before setting up camp, jumping in sand dunes, and lying back to name all the birds they can see....

Here, Dora The Explorer and Boots travel to Star Mountain to bring back the brightest star inside Dora's house for a party surprise. All along the story, they use language and problem solving skills as they come closer to their final destination.

Abandoned as a baby in a forest to be eaten by Shadow Creatures, twelve-year-old Bo and his pet fox embark on a quest to return the wish-granting Stars to the Ulvian sky before the Shadow Witch can steal the star magic.

Youngsters are invited to join Pete the Cat as he stars in the classic nighttime song "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star."

In this story that explains why a star is placed on the top of a Christmas tree, a little star ignored by the other stars for being so small shines down on a stable, warming and lighting it for baby Jesus.