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When Friedrich Froebel was born in 1782, the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation had existed for almost a thousand years .  .   .

After the defeat of Napoleon, the Congress of Vienna created the Principalities of Central Europe, that were progressively defeated by the Kingdom of Prussia to form the German Empire

There is, in political geography, no Germany to speak of. There are Kingdoms and Grand Duchies, and Duchies and Principalities, inhabited by Germans, and each separately ruled by an independent sovereign with all the machinery of State. Yet there is a natural undercurrent tending to a national feeling and toward a union of the Germans.

– article from the New York Times published in July 1, 1866

It was during these turbulent times of transition, that Friedrich Froebel and his friends developed universal ideas about education, that empower children to be lively and free, while respecting each other and the natural world.

▶ Eric Carle reads The Very Hungry Caterpillar – YouTube

See Eric Carle, the author of The Very Hungry Caterpillar, reading this classic Puffin picture book out loud. An exclusive glimpse of this incredible book and author. The Very Hungry Caterpillar was recently found to be the most read book in Britain in an Early Learning Centre survey. Researchers estimate that it is read an average of nine times a year by the nations 5.5 million pre-school and primary school children.

via ▶ Eric Carle reads The Very Hungry Caterpillar – YouTube.

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“The very hungry caterpillar literally eats his way through the pages of the book—and right into your child’s heart…”
—Mother’s Manual

“Gorgeously illustrated, brilliantly innovative…”
—The New York Times Book Review