Friedrich Wilhelm Carové 1 hr read

A little child wanders a garden of endless wonders, talking flowers, dewdrops, and gentle creatures, in a dreamlike tale that a father translated so his daughter might share its delight.

Friedrich Wilhelm Carové's 1834 fairy tale is a beloved classic of German Romantic children's literature. Gentle, luminous, timeless. Read it for a tender prose-poem of a child's communion with nature, a quiet, wondering little book, long treasured for its beauty, that famously seems to 'leave off' rather than end.

In its time

Published in 1834, during the 1830s, poe and the german romantics.

Reading it

1 hr read (a novelette, room for a turn or two).

Illustrated by

William Harvey