"Singing on a Star" by Ellen Klages

LeVar Burton Reads

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Arts, Performing Arts

4.9 • 17K Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

A kindergartner travels through a portal to a fantastic and eerie new world. This story appears in Ellen's collection WICKED WONDERS. This episode is sponsored by Sierra Club (www.beyondcoal.org/stories), Bona Floor Cleaners (www.bona.com), Calm (www.calm.com/LEVAR), and The Great Courses (www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/LeVar).

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Levar Burton and this is Levar Burton Reads.
0:12.2	In every episode I hand-pick a different piece of short fiction and I read it to you.
0:17.5	The only thing these stories have in common is that I love them and I hope you will too.
0:26.2	And I can't wait to read you more live stories this fall.
0:31.4	That's right, I'm taking the podcast on the road again and tickets have just gone on sale.
0:37.3	Live readings, live author interviews, live musicians playing a accompaniment that's starting
0:42.8	this Halloween.
0:44.4	Go to LevarBert & Podcast.com slash tour to get your tickets for the shows in Washington,
0:50.0	DC, Toronto, Ontario, Brooklyn.
0:53.8	Collinswood, New Jersey, Boston, Austin, Texas, Dallas, and Atlanta.
1:00.3	We're going to have a very good time.
1:02.8	You also get your tickets and I'll see you there.
1:06.1	And with that bit of business taking care of, let's talk about this story for today because
1:11.6	it is a doozy.
1:13.7	It comes from the science fiction and fantasy author, Ellen Klaige's, and Ellen has been nominated
1:19.4	or won just about every sci-fi or fantasy award out there and she is exceptional at world
1:27.1	building.
1:28.3	I read that her dad says she has a memory like a lent trap, which is a lovely way to put
1:34.0	it.
1:35.0	The idea of trapping sometimes inadvertently details and emotions in your brain to remember.
1:41.1	And this story captures a lot of the feelings of being a small child, visiting a complete
1:47.1	other world that's just down the street from her own house.
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