The Whispering Woods and the Secret Stars

The Whispering Woods and the Secret Stars is a bedtime story for young children.

This story is based on a young boy called Milo who stumbles into a forest when a particular night is set for sleeping. 

His best friend is Celeste – a literal starlet who lives under the night sky and tells true stories about stars.

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When Milo starts reading about the constellations that guard and that watch over people while they sleep he realizes he is not alone at night – he has friends up there. 

This wonderful children’s story of sweetness and enlightenment helps children remember that stars exist and are always accessible.

The Whispering Woods and the Secret Stars – Let’s Read

There lived a young boy named Milo. His house in a small village adjacent to a very large forest. 

Milo has always enjoyed making new adventures and finding something new. 

Among all the stories he liked most when his grandma used to tell him stories about the stars. 

Whenever she had the chance to talk, she used to say, “At least once in a lifetime a person can see stars speak.”

Somewhere, sometime, one warm summer night, Milo woke up fidgeting. 

He could not sleep, instead he lay in bed and listened to the winds blowing through the trees, outside his window. 

All of a sudden, he believed, he called his name softly. It was coming from the forest!

Milo got up from bed, put on his shoes, and went to the Whispering Woods barefoot. 

When he was getting in, he would have this peculiar impression that the trees themselves seemed to be greeting them. 

He got into the bush further and behold there was one small light glowing on a bed of green silk –moss. 

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It was shining like a star, but it was practically on him.

He looked at the little light and extended his hand; the light moved onto his palm gracefully.

 A tiny star floated in front of Milo and said to him “Hello Milo”, her voice was very sweet almost like singing.

 “Friends call me Celeste – or, Celeste, the closeted Whispering Woods celebrity. It only takes a few individuals to see us and hear our secrets.”

Milo responds to these dreams with large and round sparkling eyes that glimmers with joy. “What do you harldy know, Celeste?”

The little star twinkled. Namely, tonight I’ll show you something special. Look up at the sky.”

Milo looked up, and he, you know, gulped. 

These stars looked more luminous than before and they were twinkling as if they were playing a dance across the firmament. 

Celeste came up beside him and began to tell him.”

“Look those two stars that appear to be of a bear,” she asked.

“That’s Brindle the Brave. He is a bear characterized as having a responsibility to protect all animals in the forest. 

And look over there, she said pointing at a shape like a fox,” that’s Fiona the Quick.”

She makes anyone who is lost have the direction to get home.”

Milo listened to what Celeste was saying and felt good and warm. It appeared as though there were kindly-witted stars in the forest.

Picking this up, Celeste saw that Milo was yawning and she got back up towards him and landed gently.

 “You know, Milo,” she said softly, “when something has got you surrounded and you don’t have a friend, then remember to look at the stars. 

We will always be there, winking with you in the dark; murmuring to you in your ear.

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In the quiet of the forest and the glow of the stars, even the smallest light has a story to tell.

With that Celeste began to rise upwards and upwards until she became just a little speck in the sky. 

Milo got drowsy and he thought the stars embraced him good night on that night of the year.

He went home happily with friends that he made and the beautiful story he was privileged to experience under the starlit night. 

Before drifting off to sleep he imagined still, he could hear the stars gossiping for him.

The End.