The Struwwelpeter

The children's book classic Sturdy cardboard rounded corners Unabridged edition The Struwwelpeter When children are well-behaved, the Christ Child comes to them, when they eat their soup and don't forget the bread, when they are quiet without making noise, still with the seven things, when they let themselves be guided by Mama while walking in the streets, it brings them a good enough reward and a beautiful picture book. On Christmas 1844, the Frankfurt doctor Heinrich Hoffmann gave his three-year-old son Carl a handmade picture book: the "Struwwelpeter." Everyone who saw it encouraged him to have it printed, and thus the personal gift from father to son became a texted picture book that still finds its place in every child's room today. Some verses have even become proverbial: No, I won't eat my soup...