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Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures

by Heinrich Hoffmann (1809–1894)

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  • Reading level: 6th grade

"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.

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  • Children · Conduct of life
  • Stories in rhyme
  • Behavior
  • Children's stories, German · Translations into English
  • Picture books for children
  • Children's poetry, German · Translations into English

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[Transcriber's Note: This book was first published in German in 1844, and in English translation in 1848. This edition was not dated. Color illustrations appear on every page, often "playing" with the text.]

STRUWWELPETER

MERRY STORIES AND FUNNY PICTURES

Heinrich Hoffman

Frederick Warne & Co., Inc. New York

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This free edition of Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures by Heinrich Hoffmann comes from Project Gutenberg eBook #12116, released 2004-04-01. It is in the public domain in the United States, so you can read it here in full at no cost, on any phone, tablet or computer. Genre: Short Stories, Children & Young Adult Reading, Humour, German Literature.

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