Dear Sarah

by Elisabeth Borchers (Illustrator), Elisabeth Borchers, Elizabeth Shub (Illustrator)

Sarah's father sends her letters from the cities he visits while on a lengthy business trip.

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

Borchers was born in Homberg in 1926 and lived during World War II in Alsace. She wrote fiction and poetry and plays. She also wrote for children and translated from French.

Her novel Gedichte (Poems) won the Roswitha von Gandersheim Medal in 1976, an award made to outstanding women writers in German. She worked for publishers until 1998 where she helped the eventual nobel laureate Wislawa Szymborska.

Borchers died in Frankfurt am Main in 2013

Reviews

[Rosie Harris · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a series of very cute letters written from a father to his daughter about all of the places he has been. I would use this book in my classroom to teach kids about different purposes of writting or how to format a letter.

[Kyle Sunich · Rating 4 out of 5]

This tells of a father who is on a business trip in Europe and writes letters do his daughter Sarah. Each new place he visits he writes a letter that paints a picture in the readers head. The illustrations are unique and attention grabbing.

[CJ Mills · Rating 4 out of 5]

for early German-readers