else ury's nesthäkchen is a berlin doctor's daughter, annemarie braun, a slim, golden blond, quintessential german girl. the ten-book follows annemarie from infancy ("nesthäkchen and her dolls") to old age and grandchildren ("nesthäkchen with white hair"). this third volume of the series, published 1915/1921, tells the story of ten-year-old annemarie's bout of scarlet fever, her recovery in a north sea children's sanitorium, and her desperate struggle to return home at the outbreak of world war i.