My mother's mother, my maternal grandmother, used to tell me stories, as I have mentioned in earlier blog posts. She also taught me how to draw an 8-pointed star. As she scribbled a star on a scrap of paper, she would say this poem, in German:Kri Kra Kroten-Fuss, Gänse Laufen Bar-Fuss
The translation is as follows:
Kri Kra Toad's Foot, Geese Walk Bare-foot
I think this nonsense poem was based on German folklore. It's a totally unknown story that I've never come across anywhere else. Most likely my grandmother remembered it from her own childhood. But this was how I learned to make a star. And out of this memory of my grandmother's story, of her showing me how to draw a star, along with a dream I had about a falling star, came my book, Draw Me A Star!
Now you too can try to draw an 8-pointed star. See if you can do it without lifting your pen from the paper!
8 comments:
It took a couple of tries and it wasn't really pretty, but I did it! :) Thanks for sharing the story behind your story, very special!
I love it! And I love the poem, it made my kid laugh. Thank you for posting.
Beautiful story.
What a sweet poem. You should turn it into a book :)
I had to delete my last comment due to a typo. You are one of our favorite authors. We created a collage project based on your book: "The Tiny Seed". We hope you like our interpretation.
Thanks for sharing the poem. I would love to share this with my son (2 and half yr old) tomorrow morning. I started a blog only to make sure that such trivia was not lost over time.
I guess I know the trick of making the star without lifting the pen :) !
Happy Birthday in advance. You are a very dear family member here...even though you do not know about it.
Now my kids learn to draw a star by this poem... Vielen Dank!
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