The Simpletons
By: retold by Erich Kastner; tr. by Richard and Clara Winston.  Illus. by Horst Lemke.
Contributors: Lemke, Horst, illus.
Publisher: Messner
Published: 1957
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 69
Subjects: Folklore -- Germany
Other titles: Schildbürger.
Description: "This is the story of a little town in Germany called Schilda and of the people who lived there.  They did everything wrong--like building a three-cornered town hall with no windows, and sowing the field with salt to grow more salt...Oh, they were simpletons indeed!  But, if the truth must be told, they weren't always so stupid." Publisher's note.
Notes: Harlequin books.