Stellaluna story

For students of Rosendo Lajas Puerto Rico. Toro's class. Published by Emanuel M.

2. In a warm and sultry forest far, far away,
there once lived a mother fruit bat and her new baby
Oh, how Mother Bat loved her soft tiny baby.
‘Til name you Stellaluna,” she crooned.

3. Each night, Mother Bat
would carry Stellaluna
clutched to her breast as
she flew out to search for

food.

4. Dodging and shrieking, Mother
Bat tried to escape, but the owl
struck again and again, knocking
Stellaluna into the air.
Stellaluna baby wings were as
limp and useless as wet paper.
Down, down she went, faster
and faster, into the forest below.
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5. 令 Wrapping | er ; bout her,
She-clute e thin branch
trembling with cold and fear.

~~ “Mother,” Stellaluna-sqteaked.
“Where are- you?”

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headfirst in a sgft down
nest, startling fhe three
baby birds who lived the

Stellalima qhickly
clambered from the nest
and hung oút of sight Belo
it. She listeried to thef f

babble of the three birds!
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7. Finally, though, the little
bat could bear it no
longer, She climbed into
the nest, closed her

eyes, and opened her
mouth.

8. @ She ate bugs ‘without 4
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+ And she didn't hang
EN by her feet.

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+ She slept in the nest
at night.

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+ Stellaluna behaved as
a good bird should.

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9. All the babies grew quickly.
Soon the nest became
crowded.

Mama Bird told them it was
time to learn to fly.

10. © One by one, Pip, Flitter,
Flap, and Stellaluna
jumped from the nest.
Their wings worked! I’m
just like them, thought

"u I can fly, too.

11. ip, Flittenand Flap landedegracefully on aybranch. PS

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12. & The next day, Pip, Flitter, Flap, and Stellaluna went
flying far from home. They flew for hours, exercising their
new wings. But Stellaluna had flown far ahead, and was
nowhere to be seen. ㆍ ㆍ

13. » "IT promised not to
hang by my feet,”
Stellaluna sighed.
So she hung by her
thumbs and soon
fell asleep.

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More bats gathered around to see the strange young bat
who behaved like a bird. Stellaluna told them her story.

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® “An owl attacked you?” she
asked. Sniffing Stellaluna’s fur,
she whispered, “You are
Stellaluna. You are my baby.”

“You escaped the owl?” cried
Stellaluna. “You survived?”

“Yes,” said Mother Bat as she

wrapped her wings around
Stellaluna.

16. Stellaluna cod see. She
felt as though rays of light
shone from her eyes. She
was able to see everything

in her path.

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+ Soon the bats found a mango
tree, and Stellaluna ate as much
of the fruit as she could

18. ® As the birc
the bats,
upside
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19. When night came
Stellaluna flew away.
Pip, Flitter, and Flap
leapt from the tree to

follow her.

20. ® Stellaluna hung from the limb above them.
They perched in silence for a long ti

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