OPA'S STORIES |
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by Mary Dodson Wade |
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When the Germans came to Texas in the 1840s, they built little stone houses on the main street of the town they named Fredericksburg. They safely grew their wonderful vegetables and fruits because they had made a treaty with the Comanches. Both sides kept the treaty, and many interesting things happened between these friends. The stories that Opa (grandfather in German) tells his grandson are true. The beautiful cut-paper pictures bring to life such stories as the one about a Mexican child redeemed with a barrel of molasses and the chief who baptized his baby son in the icy creek by the settler's house.
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| WHAT OTHERS HAVE SAID ABOUT THIS BOOK: |
Review of Texas Books: "...fictionalized account of several documented events....Opa's exuberant "Ah-yah" signals an upcoming story laced with good nature and German terms. From the cozy environs of Opa and Oma's garden and front porch emerge tales ranging from John Meusebach's friendship with the Comanches to an account of Herr Brodbeck's pre-Wright Brothers' airship....surprising depth and variety in the area's past....attractive cut-paper illustrations by Pat Finney...sixteen-term glossary of German words."