Quilt tells folk tale

While growing up in wartime Germany, Sieglinde Schoen-Smith found comfort in the words and watercolors in a German folk tale, “Mother Earth and Her Children.” Many years later, when she lost her son, Schoen-Smith again turned for comfort to the children’s story and used it as the inspiration for a quilt. The quilt won the top prize at the International Quilt Market.

Today, that quilt serves as the illustration for a new translation of “Mother Earth and Her Children” by Jack Zipes of the University of Minnesota.

“Mother Earth and Her Children” was written for ages 3 to 8.