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Germany: Introductory

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PICTURE BOOKS
BH   1-122   German Nursery Rhymes
BH   2-140   A German Evening  (poem)
♦   $   ​Beethoven Lives Upstairs  by Barbara Nichol
A beautifully illustrated introduction to Beethoven and his classical masterpieces.
♦   $   ​Hansel and Gretel ill. by Paul O. Zelinsky
♦   $   ​Hansel and Gretel ill. by Susan Jeffers
$   ​Little Red Riding Hood ill. by Gennady Spirin
$   ​Little Red Riding Hood ill. by Jerry Pinkney
$   ​Martin Luther: A Man Who Changed the World  by Paul L. Maier
A picture book introduction to Martin Luther's life and work.
♦   $   ​Nibble, Nibble Mousekin  by Joan Walsh Anglund
Hansel and Gretel told with a loving, caring father and two brave children.
♦   $   ​Rapunzel ill. by Alix Berenzy
♦   $   ​Rapunzel ill. by Paul Zelinsky
  $   ​Rumpelstiltskin ill. by Paul Zelinsky
$   ​Rose Red and Snow White ill. by Ruth Sanderson
$   ​Snow White ill. Charles Santore
♦   $   ​The Elves and the Shoemaker
A Grimm fairy tale.
♦   $   ​The Frog Prince by Alix Berenzy
A twist on the original  Grimm story, but the illustrations are beautiful.
♥   The Pied Piper of Hamelin  By Robert Browning, fully ill. by Dunlap
♦   $   ​The Traveling Musicians  by Hans Fischer
Wonderful illustrations make the book.
♦   $   ​The Twelve Dancing Princesses  ill. by Craft
♦   $   ​​The Twelve Dancing Princesses ill. by Ruth Sanderson
IMAGINATIVE
FC   S3-81   German Fairy Tales
FC   S11-3   The Golden Pears
FC   S11-13   Sweet Rice Porridge
FC   S11-328   The Golden River
FC   S11-319   The Magic Mask
BH   2-182   The Story Adventure of Baron Munchausen
BH   3-95   The Shoemaker and the Elves
BH   3-111   The Little Girls and the Hare
BH   4-28   The Twelve Dancing Princesses
BH   4-34   Snow White and Rose-Red
BH   4-73   Hansel and Grethel
BH   7-126   The Six Swans
BH   7-134   The Golden Bird  ​
JC   1-48   Little Red Riding Hood
JC   2-70   Rapunzel
JC   2-76   The Elves and the Shoemaker
JC   2-79   Hansel and Grethel
JC   2-91   Bremen Town Musicians
JC   2-96   The Fisherman and His Wife
JC   2-106   The Goose Girl
JC   2-114   The Golden Goose
♦   Favorite Fairy Tales Told in Germany by Virginia Haviland
♥   Grimm’s Fairy Tales   by Mara Pratt (1892)
♥   Grimm’s Fairy Tales   by Edna Lee Turpin (1903)
♥   Olcott’s Grimm’s Fairy tales  by Frances Olcott Jenkins (1927)
♦   Snow White and Other Stories from Grimm  by Jeanne Cappe (1957)
LEGENDARY/EPIC HEROES
FC  S5-122   Siegfried:  Hero of Germany
BH   11-73   The Tale of the Rhine-Gold
♥   Child Stories of the Masters   by Maud Menefee (1899) 
The Story of Siegfried pp. 27-39
A sweet, short story to read aloud.

♥   Stories from Old Germany, Vol. 1  by Mara Pratt (1895) 
Niebelungen Lied– The story of Siegfried, Lohengrin. The author  'only uses parts that are ‘safe’ to influence a child’s conception of what a hero should be.'
♥   Stories of Siegfried Told to Children by Mary MacGregor
CULTURAL
FC   S1-16   Ludwig Knaus
FC   S1-18, 21   von Bremen
FC   S12-345   The Legend of the Christ Child
FC   N12-7   Haensel and Gretel
FC   N12-65   Tannhauser
FC   N12-87   Wagner's Opera
FC   OC10   German, Armenian, Bohemian
BH   4-159   The Blacksmith by Brahms
BH   5-162   The Nuremberg Stove
BH   6-59   A Musical Visit to Fairyland:  Mendelssohn
♥   Mitz and Fritz of Germany  by Madeline Brandeis
♥   Our Little German Cousin  by Mary Hazelton Wade
FICTION
JC   6-390   A Star for Hansi
♦   $   ​​The Cuckoo Clock by Mary Stolz
An orphan is taken in by a clockmaker and is taught many things.
HISTORICAL
FC   S6-175   The Kingdoms
FC   S6-187   The King and the Page
FC   S11-26   The Honest Farmer
FC   S11-32   Hans, the Shepherd Boy
FC   S11-104   The Little Loaf
HISTORICAL FICTION
$   ​The Borrowed House  by Hilda van Stockum
"During World War II a young German girl, member of the Hitler Youth, joins her parents in occupied Amsterdam and comes to realize that the war is about more than national pride and destiny; for some it means starvation, separation from loved ones, and gas chambers."
$   ​​The Butterfly  by Patricia Polacco
"Ever since the Nazis marched into Monique's small French village, terrorizing it, nothing surprises her, until the night Monique encounters 'the little ghost' sitting at the end of her bed. She turns out to be a girl named Sevrine, who has been hiding from the Nazis in Monique's basement. Playing after dark, the two become friends, until, in a terrifying moment, they are discovered, sending both of their families into a nighttime flight." Based on a true story.
BIOGRAPHIES
FC   G5-24   John Gutenberg
FC   G5-31   John Gutenberg
FC   G8-28   Bach
FC   G8-122   Beethoven
♦   $   ​Beethoven by Reba Mirsky
♦   Johann Gutenberg by Elwyn Smith
♥   Ludwig Beethoven and the Chiming Tower Bells by Opal Wheeler
​Opal Wheeler Music Biographies Series
♦   Sebastian Bach  The Boy from Thuringia by Sybil Deucher, Opal Wheeler
Opal Wheeler Music Biographies Series
♦   The Story of Beethoven by Helen Kaufmann
A Signature Biography
♦   The Young Brahms by Sybil Deucher
​Opal Wheeler Music Biographies Series
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