The Story of the Root-Children

By Sibylle von Olfers

Subjects: Translations into English, English poetry, Fiction, general, Nature, Children's stories, German, Spring, Children, fiction, Seasons, Fiction, Children's fiction, Picture books

Description: The root children spend the winter asleep. When spring comes, they wake, sew themselves new gowns, and clean and paint the beetles and bugs. All summer they play in fields, ponds and meadows before returning in the autumn to Mother Earth, who welcomes them home and puts them to bed once more.