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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/551449.Struwwelpeter_Fearful_Stories_and_Vile_Pictures_to_Instruct_Good_Little_Folks?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Struwwelpeter: Fearful Stories and Vile Pictures to Instruct Good Little Folks" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1175727271m/551449.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/551449.Struwwelpeter_Fearful_Stories_and_Vile_Pictures_to_Instruct_Good_Little_Folks?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Struwwelpeter: Fearful Stories and Vile Pictures to Instruct Good Little Folks</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/62570.Heinrich_Hoffmann">Heinrich Hoffmann</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2508115?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 5 of 5 stars<br/>Quoted from the back of the book: <br/> <br/>Warning! <br/>This children's book is not for children! <br/> <br/>Since 1845, millions of parents bought Struwwelpeter, a book that threatened their children with the consequences that befall the disordered and disorderly. Thumbs are sheared off, eyes fall out of sockets, faces are pecked to death and bodies waste to nothing. <br/> <br/>Though castigated in recent years for its sadistic approach to child-rearing, Struwwelpeter remains a cultural phenomenon ... translated into many languages, the subject of a popular German museum, and the unmistakable influence of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which also disposes of wretched kids in rhyme. <br/> <br/>The Feral House edition includes Sarita Vendetta's macabre illustrations to Heinrich Hoffmann's verse, the entire original edition in color, Struwwelpeter-inspired wartime propaganda titled Struwwelhitler, and a revealing introduction by Jack Zipes, an authority on folklore and children's literature, whose journal, "The Lion and the Unicorn," devoted an entire issue to Heinrich Hoffmann and Struwwelpeter. <br/> <br/>I think the back of the book says more than I could ever say in a review. The stories are deliciously morbid, and the illustrations are wonderful. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/112131?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>