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PreS-Gr 2 A story told in evocative free verse and graced with exuberant watercolors. A girl begins her narration when she was "no bigger than you are." She describes an old man who sits "in an old chair/on an old green porch" and tells tales of the time he found a falling star, and when he went for a walk an...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

In this whimsical story, the narrator remembers an elderly neighbor from her childhood and recounts two of the many stories he told, of which she says, "The stranger they were, the truer he looked." The first story tells how, as a boy, he once followed a star as it fell from the sky, and picked it up, "warm and smooth as an egg straight from the hen"; the narrator holds the "glas...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

The narrator recounts two of her elderly neighbor's stories. The first tells how he followed a star that fell from ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More