Luna Has Nothing to Wear

Luna Has Nothing to Wear

Prologue

The Moon once begged her Mother to make her a gown."How can I?" replied she; "there's no fitting your figure.At one time you're a New Moon, and at another you're a Full Moon; and between whiles you're neither one nor the other."

Luna Has Nothing to Wear is based on one of Aesop's fables, "The Moon and Her Mother."Read on to see how the writer wove this original fable into a larger story.

"Please make me a dress," Luna begged.It was only three hours until the grandest ball in the galaxy, and Luna still had nothing to wear.

"How can I make you a dress?" her mother asked."You are the moon— there is no fitting your figure.At one time you're a New Moon, at another you're a Full Moon.In between, you are all different shapes."

"It's not fair!" shouted Luna."Everyone always goes to see what the Sun is wearing.They say she really lights up the room. Saturn has those cool rings that never fall.Halley's Comet has a long trail that flows behind her ... so what can I wear?"

"What you always wear, dear," her mother said.

Luna looked down at her clothes: baggy pants with an elastic waist and a puffy shirt.Both were made to stretch and stretch and never rip.

"They're all going to make fun of me tonight," Luna said."I just hope I don't grow big at the dance and start to glow again!"

"You're very important," her mother said. "Never forget that."

That night every planet, comet, and star who was anybody was at the Galaxy Ball.Pluto wore a tuxedo (even though he wasn't called a planet anymore).Mars wore red, Neptune wore blue, and Jupiter's ruby necklace matched her Great Red Spot.In tiptoed Luna in her elastic pants, trying not to be noticed.

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