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Remaking an Old Favorite: How I Modernized a Childhood Song in a Picture Book Format

by Sandra Sutter | May 15, 2019 | Craft

I have to confess up front that I never intended to remake the popular children’s song “The Farmer in the Dell.” But when my son (4-years-old at the time) asked if I knew the farmer had taken a wife, the idea of writing a less gender-traditional version...

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