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| Cover of “Mother Earth’s Children” |
“A seed, little friends, is really a plant or a tree all wrapped up in a little brown bundle. If you plant it in the ground it will grow, and when it is old enough it will bear fruit, for God made it so.”
among all sons mother natureFruits and vegetables are probably the most beneficial for us. Wherever we go, some of these little people are there before us, ready to help us by providing food and making life easy and joyful for us.”
“In your mother’s garden you will always find many familiar friends; in the fields the graceful grain-children will beckon and nod to you; in the orchard the fruit-children will peer at you from their leafy homes; along the roadside happy little berries will give you friendly greetings, and in the woods you will find grapes The little wildebeest climbs trees and plays hide-and-seek with the baby birds.”
The following fruit and vegetable puppets are loosely based on illustrations and poems by writers M.T. Ross and Elizabeth Gordon. Pictures of them complete with dolls will be included by artist Cathy Grimm. almost!
Apple * Artichoke * Asparagus * Banana * Barley * Beechnut * Beet * Blackberry * Brazil Nut * Brussels Sprout * Button Mushroom * Cabbage * Cactus * Caraway * Carrageen * Carrot * Cashew * Cauliflower * Celery * Cherry * Chestnut * Chicory * Citron * Coconut * Coffee * Cotton * Cranberry * Cucumber * Currant * Dandelion * Eggplant * Dandelion * English Walnut * Fig * Garlic * Gooseberry * Pumpkin * Grapefruit * Green Onion * Green Pea * Green Pepper * Green Tea * Jumbo * Walnut Hickory * Radish * Hubbard Squash * Indian Corn * Lemon * Lettuce * Melon * Mustard * Nutmeg * Olive * Orange * Oyster Plant * Parsley * Parsnips * Peach * Peanut * Pear * Pearl Onion * Cherry Lemon * Pineapple * Plum * Pomegranate * popcorn * potatoes * squash * quince * radishes * berries * red pepper * rhubarb * rice * turnip greens * scotch oats * Spanish onions * spinach * string beans * St. John’s bread * sugar cane * summer squash * tomato * truffle * marrow vegetables * water splash * watermelon * wheat * white turnip * blueberry * wild strawberry * yam