Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures by Heinrich Hoffmann

Hoffmann, Heinrich, 1809-1894

"Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures" by Heinrich Hoffmann is a children's book written and illustrated in 1845. This collection of ten rhymed cautionary tales shows children suffering disastrous consequences for their misbehavior. A girl plays with matches, a thumb-sucker meets a scissor-wielding tailor, and a boy who refuses soup wastes away. Each story delivers stark moral lessons through exaggerated punishments. Originally created as a Christmas gift for Hoffmann's young son, this pioneering work combines visual and verbal storytelling in ways that foreshadowed modern comic books. ... Read more

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Author	Hoffmann, Heinrich, 1809-1894
Title	Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures
Note	Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struwwelpeter
Credits	Produced by Suzanne Shell, Sandra Brown and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
Reading Level	Reading ease score: 87.8 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language	English
LoC Class	PZ: Language and Literatures: Juvenile belles lettres
Subject	Children's poetry, German -- Translations into English
Category	Text
eBook-No.	12116
Release Date	Apr 1, 2004
Last Update	Oct 28, 2024
Copyright	Public domain in the USA.
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