Book Description

TOPICS IN THIS BOOK: 1. Merry Stories And Funny Pictures 2. Shock-headed Peter 3. Cruel Frederick 4. The Dreadful Story of Harriet and the Matches 5. The Story of the Inky Boys 6. The Story of the Man that went out Shooting 7. The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb 8. The Story of Augustus, who would not have any Soup 9. The Story of Fidgety Philip 10. The Story of Johnny Head-in-Air 11. The Story of Flying Robert ABOUT THE BOOK: Have you ever heard of Struwwelpeter? This book is one of the most successful German children's books and has been translated into many languages. It contains stories about careless or disobedient children who are harmed by their carelessness. From the author of Books Like: 1. Der Struwwelpeter 2. Struwwelpeter: Fearful Stories and Vile Pictures to Instruct Good Little Folks 3. Klassiker für Kinder 4. Slovenly Kate and Other Stories: From the Struwwelpeter Library 5. Der Struwwelpeter und die Struwwelliese 6. König Nußknacker und der arme Reinhold. Ein Kindermährchen in Bildern 7. Max und Moritz & Der Struwwelpeter 8. The Sandman: Bilingual Edition 9. Der Struwwelpeter: Lustige Geschichten und Drollige Bilder 10. Der Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures 11. Prince Greenwood and Pearlfine 12. Der Struwwelpeter: und wie der Struwwelpeter entstand - erzählt von Heinrich Hoffmann 13. Wie der Teufel den Schwanz verlor 14. Lustige Geschichten und drollige Bilder (Struwwelpeter - Erstausgabe 1844) 15. Slovenly Peter Reformed, Showing How He Became a Neat Scholar 16. Bastian der Faulpelz 17. Vaikai vanagai 18. Pierre l'ebouriffé et consorts 19. Der Badeort Salzloch ABOUT THE AUTHOR : Heinrich Hoffmann was a German psychiatrist, who also wrote some short works including Der Struwwelpeter (German for either "slovenly Peter" or "shock-haired Peter"), an illustrated book portraying children misbehaving. He wrote under the following names: - Polykarpus Gastfenger (The given name is the German version of that of a Christian martyr; the surname sounds like "Gastfänger", which could be a common noun for "guest-catcher".) - Heulalius von Heulenburg - Heinrich Hoffmann - Heinrich Hoffmann-Donner (The second half of the compound surname would mean "thunder" as a common noun, or a name for the Germanic thunder-god Thor.) - Heinrich Kinderlieb (The surname means roughly "love of children") - Reimerich Kinderlieb - Peter Struwwel (This name reverses the order of the components of "Struwwelpeter".) - Zwiebel (As a common noun, this would mean "onion") In Frankfurt/Germany there is a Heinrich-Hoffmann-Museum Frankfurt. Hoffmann studied medicine in Heidelberg. From 1851, he was director of the municipal psychiatry in Frankfurt. He is the subject of the historical novel, 98 Reasons for Being.