Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures by Heinrich Hoffmann
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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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| 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 -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction |
| Subject | Stories in rhyme |
| Subject | Behavior -- Fiction |
| Subject | Children's stories, German -- Translations into English |
| Subject | Picture books for children |
| 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. |
| Downloads | 5712 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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