The world is so wondrous for a young boy like Tom.
He wanted to know things, so he asked his mom.
Who lights the sun that shines down each day?
What makes it so warm on my back while I play.
What makes the sun so round and so bright?
Why does it travel from morning ‘til night?
And where does it go when the day is all done?
I just have to know. What lights the sun?
It was made long ago before we were born.
Now the sun always shines and it keeps the Earth warm.
It's a huge ball of gas burning bright, way up there,
And it makes the world glow when its rays fill the air.
The sun stays in one spot, while the Earth spins around,
So it seems that the sun comes up and goes down.
It’s the earth that is turning, toward the sun when it’s day,
When night comes, the sun shines on lands far away.
All living things in the world must depend
On its light and its warmth. The sun is our friend.
Why does the moon change way up in the sky?
It’s shaped like a banana, or round like a pie.
Some nights it is big. Other times it’s so small
And once when I looked I couldn’t find it at all.
The moon’s not the same when it passes on by.
What makes it change? Please tell me why.
The sun shines on the Earth and gives our world light.
It shines on the moon and makes the moon bright.
But the moon moves around, as it travels through space,
So we do not see it in quite the same place.
When we look at the moon, there will just be
The part that the sun’s light allows us to see.
Tell me about the stars that twinkle overhead.
Why do they come out, when I go in to bed?
What are stars made of? Why do some fall?
Do they ever get lost because they are so small?
How many stars are up there so high?
I want to know more about stars in the sky.
Stars are very far away. That’s why they seem small.
Every star is actually a huge gigantic ball.
They’re made of burning gas, just like our own sun.
At night they appear to come out one by one.
But stars are always up there, all day and all night.
We don’t see them by day ‘cause the sun shines so bright.
Falling stars are really rocks that burn up in Earth’s air.
Try counting stars and you’ll see that stars are everywhere.
Tom hugged his mom, then ran off to play.
He was finished with questions, at least for today.
