Theodor Storm was a 19th century German writer and poet. He is important in the German Realist movement. Doris Orgel retells his children's story "Little John" and it is full of fantasy!
Little John
Theodore Storm
retold by Doris Orgel
pictures by Anita Lobel 1972
Little John sleeps in a trundle bed but wants to be trundled to sleep. His mother obliges, until she falls asleep herself. Little John then concocts a ridiculous contraption with his big toe and sleep shirt to trundle himself around the room, out into the town, the woods, and finally the sky. Anita Lobel's drawings make this a worthy addition to silly folktale stories.
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