This is a sweet, most wonderful book, published in 1934. My mom's name is Gretchen and she had the book as a little girl, which she saved (and still has, 80+ years later). I grew up reading it, so it's very near and dear to my heart. Little fat Gretchen is a wooden figure on top of a German music box who has a baby doll--her "puppchen"--in a little buggy. One day Gretchen wakes up to find her doll and buggy have disappeared! She climbs down off the music box and ventures into the Black Forest to find her "puppchen". There she encounters various animals--a nightingale, a hare, a snail, a bee, and so on. Emma Brock's illustrations are magical, richly textured woodcuts: ferns, rocks with lichen, rivulets flowing over stones, pine needles and cones, tree bark, woodland flowers. The written music for the music-box lullaby Gretchen sings to her baby doll appears on a few pages, so when reading the book to a little one, the lullaby can also be sung.