Title: Rudi and the distelfink
First published: 1972
Description: F.N. Monjo has written a panoramic story describing one year in the life of a Pennsylvania Dutch farm boy and his family in 1820. The reader will meet the Schimmelpfennig family--Mutti, (mother) Vati, (father) and the eight boys and three girls, not to mention Willi Stolzfuss who drove the Conestoga wagons and married Anna Marie. Last, but not least, there is the distelfink bird, the Pennsylvania Dutch symbol of happiness.
Subjects: Pennsylvania Dutch, Fiction, Children, united states, fiction, Pennsylvania dutch, fiction
LC classification: PZ7.M75 Ru