Frau Holle
(Mother Holle)
Read this tale aloud, or read along with your little one. Sentences are short and the words are simple.
Once a girl was kind. Her stepmother had a cruel daughter. The stepmother said: go work.
The kind girl fell in a well. She came to a warm land. She met an old woman.
The woman said: shake the trees. They shook. Gold fell.
She worked hard. The woman said: go home. She came up with gold.
The cruel daughter went too. She did not work. She got tar.
She sat on the stool. She could not get up. She was stuck.
The kind girl lived happily ever after.
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- Katze und Maus in Gesellschaft (The Cat and Mouse in Partnership)
- Marienkind (Our Lady's Child)
- Märchen von einem, der auszog, das Fürchten zu lernen (The Story of the Boy Who Went Forth to Learn Fear)
- Der Wolf und die sieben jungen Geißlein (The Wolf and the Seven Young Goats)
- Der treue Johannes (The Faithful Johannes)