I remember, when I was a child, I saw a Rupert episode named 'Rupert & The Little Bear'. In it, Rupert and his tubby porcine friend Podgy encounter Pegasus, who leads them to a palace in the sky which is home to thousands of Constellations. It introduced me to them too - Scorpio, Torus, Leo, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, who I believe looked similar to Nick Jr's Little Bear except large and on all fours, were just five of my first Constellations. Now in my I.B.F.Fs story 'Sleepytime: The Legend Of Bingo', we are introduced to Floppy, who is actually a form of the Constellation Lepus, and Princess Gemini, a Greek goddess-like dog princess of the stars who bares a striking resemblance to Aunt Trixie thinking about her. To celebrate the first episode of the new Dog Loves Books being about stars - and not mentioning that Kenai and Koda from Brother Bear are secretly Constellations themselves - I've put up this fun little activity which uses marshmallows to link up some strands of hard spaghetti to make Constellations!
Fantastic, I love that you remember that and have created a post about it.
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