Name: On The Night You Were Born - Kids Books Read Aloud
Uploaded: 2025-05-27T06:22:53.000Z
Duration: 3 min 33 s
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On the Night You Were Born, written and illustrated by Nancy Tillman.

Participle clauses

On the night you were born, the moon smiled with such wonder that the stars peeked in to see you and the night wind whispered, "Life will never be the same."

Basic passive voice

Because there had never been anyone like you...

Past perfect

So enchanted with you were the wind and the rain that they whispered the sound of your wonderful name.

It sailed through the farmland high on the breeze...

Until everyone heard it and everyone knew of the one and only ever you.

Not once had there been such eyes, such a nose, such silly, wiggly, wonderful toes.

In fact, I think I'll count to three so you can wiggle your toes for me.

When the polar bears heard, they danced until dawn.

From faraway places, the geese flew home.

The moon stayed up until morning next day.

So whenever you doubt just how special you are and you wonder who loves you, how much and how far, listen for geese honking high in the sky.

(They're singing a song to remember you by.)

(It's because they've been dancing all night for you!)

Or drift off to sleep to the sound of the wind.

If the moon stays up until morning one day, or a ladybug lands and decides to stay, or a little bird sits at your window awhile, it's because they're all hoping to see you smile...

For never before in story or rhyme (not even once upon a time) has the world ever known a you, my friend, and it never will, not ever again...

Heaven blew every trumpet and played every horn on the wonderful, marvelous night you were born.

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