Welcome to Cariphos

You’re invited to step into the world of Cariphos, a new book series where stars come to life. Join Stella as she meets a comet, finds a best friend, learns of her own special gift and has wondrous adventures that challenge her courage.

Discover

When stars are your friends, you’re never alone.

The Tales of the Star Dancers have been written down to introduce you to a few of them. As you learn their names and how to find them, you will always know your way on a dark and starry night. Once you start down this path, you’ll never run out of new worlds to explore and new stars to meet. The Universe is virtually endless. Thousands of years of observation, research and study have simply shown us how much more there is to know.

PARENTAL WARNING

Children who read these books may insist that their parents spread a blanket for them under a clear night sky, find the constellations and watch for falling stars.

Where it began …

In the beginning, when God created all things, the stars “sang together for joy.” Inspired by this celestial harmony, the enchanting Tales of the Star Dancers were written to bring the magic of the stars to life.

Stories That Inspire

Books

Almost 2,000 years ago, long before the first telescope was invented, a man name Ptolemy wrote a book about astronomy in which he described 48 constellations and listed all 1,022 stars visible in the night sky. His master was Hipparchus who wrote 260 years before him. Ptolemy also quoted studies of “the ancient ones” and described a lunar eclipse from 900 years before his time. For many thousands of years, the peoples of the ancient world knew the constellations. The steady march of these pictures in the sky anchored generations of our ancestors to the rhythms of the world around them. Those images still course through our nights. We would do well to know them.

Tales of the Star Dancers is an imaginative introduction to Ptolemy’s 48 ancient figures in the sky as an earth walker named Stella travels to Cariphos, the land of grace (charis) and light (phos). They are written in the hopes of inspiring young minds to learn more about this vast and beautiful universe.