Hin und Her: Ein Buch für die Kinder

Henry H. Fick (1849-1935)

Approximate level: A2
Length: 11,822 words
Reading time: 59 min
Chapters: 100
Language: German
On Project Gutenberg since: 2005

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This early twentieth-century German children’s reader moves through short poems and simple everyday scenes, beginning with dawn, farm animals, and a family breakfast. You will meet familiar vocabulary about time, weather, food, household routines, and work, alongside older spellings and contractions that may take extra attention. Most sentences are brief and direct, though the rhyming verses use inversions and compressed phrasing. The themes are daily life, nature, family, and the value of waking promptly and taking part.

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Subjects

Children's literature
German language -- Readers

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