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Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures

By Heinrich Hoffmann

"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…

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"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. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Behavior -- FictionChildren -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fictionChildren's poetry, German -- Translations into EnglishChildren's stories, German -- Translations into EnglishPicture books for childrenStories in rhymeCategory: Children & Young Adult ReadingCategory: German LiteratureCategory: HumourCategory: Short Stories
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