Struwwelpeter

Here is a collection of fearful stories and vile pictures to instruct good little folks.

The story of Struwwelpeter is just over 150 years old and tells of a young lad whose name when translated into English is Slovenly Peter. Other characters in this classic collection of cautionary tales include Simple Hans, Phoebe Ann, the proud girl and Jimmy Sliderlegs.

Widely acknowledged as one of the most popular and influential children's books ever written, 'Struwwelpeter' (pronounced "Shtruvelpeter") has been translated into at least thirty languages, and is widely popular among generations of readers for whom it held a terrible fascination as a child. These graphically illustrated tales include Conrad Suck-a-Thumb (who has his fingers cut off by the Red-legg'd Scissor-man), Harriet who suffers a dreadful fate after playing with matches, and Fidgety Philip who just won't keep still.

This new, handsome paperback edition is a painstaking reproduction of the nineteenth-century edition, printed in five colours to approximate the look of the original, in which the text was printed letterpress, and the pictures lithographed and then coloured by hand.