"What is there that children cannot imagine! They personify everything. If they have not got a doll, then a chunk of wood will do. It is therefore quite natural for flowers to have faces-and especially when nature comes to their assistance, as it does with the pansy."
Ernst Kreidolf, (autobiography) Quoted in Bettina Hurlimann, Three Centuries of Children's Books in Europe.
If you would like to see Kreidolf's pansy-children, I recently found a copy of Servants of the Spring, one of the first translations into English.
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