Goethe for Children: a collection of poems and prose, cheerful and humorous, poetic and fascinating, offering a new perspective on familiar texts, compiled by the writer Peter Härtling and illustrated by the artist Hans Traxler. "I am in such good spirits / So cheerful and pure / And if I were to make a mistake / It couldn't be anyone's." Here, you will find little songs, catchy verses, mysterious ballads, and touching prose sequences that are immediately understandable to every child. Some of Goethe's poems can be read as if he had written them for children, who are still familiar with poetic intuition. One can immediately engage with a worldview that particularly the young Goethe used to question the prevailing views of his time and astonish his contemporaries. Such an unfiltered view of reality.