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Mother Earth and her children a quilted fairy tale

Mother Earth's children, who have been sleeping all winter awake and experience the new life, the color, and the joys of spring.

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Main Author: Olfers, Sibylle, 1881-1916
Other Authors: Schoen Smith, Sieglinde, 1941- (Illustrator), Zipes, Jack David
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
German
Published: Elmhurst, Ill. : Breckling Press, c2007.
Subjects:
Spring > Juvenile fiction.
Nature > Juvenile fiction.
Stories in rhyme.
Picture books for children.
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Summary:Mother Earth's children, who have been sleeping all winter awake and experience the new life, the color, and the joys of spring.
Item Description:"Translated from the original German tale, Etwas von den Wurzelkindern by Sibylle von Olfers, 1906"--T.p. verso.
Physical Description:1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
ISBN:9781933308180
1933308184
Author Notes:Sibylle von Olfers is the author of Etwas von den Wurzelkindern and was an art teacher in East Prussia at the turn of the century as well as a member of the Catholic Order of St. Elizabeth. Sieglinde Schoen-Smith is a quilter whose quilted interpretation of Mother Earth and Her Children captured the coveted Best in Show award at the 2006 International Quilt Show in Houston. She lives in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Jack Zipes is the foremost expert on German folklore in the United States. He is a professor of German literature at the University of Minnesota and has edited, contributed to, and translated more than 50 books, essays, and plays on German folklore, including The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature and The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales. He lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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