# 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 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. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: English
- Subjects: Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction; Stories in rhyme; Behavior -- Fiction; Children's stories, German -- Translations into English; Picture books for children; Children's poetry, German -- Translations into English

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## Audiobooks of it

- [Struwwelpeter (version 2)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/232) by Heinrich Hoffmann (18 min, English)
- [Struwwelpeter](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/books/librivox/231) by Heinrich Hoffmann (21 min, English)

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