Struwwelpeter: Truly Terrible Tales of Truly Terrible Kids With Truly Terrible Manners (PDF ebook) - We know lots of kids love wild and crazy stuff, and this is about as nutty a “classic” as they come. We can guarantee your Boys especially will be enthralled with this book (IF you decide to allow them to see it — it’s your call!) This amazing full color children’s picture book from the 1800′s, “Struwwelpeter” by Heinrich Hoffman, was originally subtitled “Merry Stories and Funny Pictures”. But what it really features are hilarious, awful stories of bad boys and girls with horrible manners, who get their comeuppance in terrible ways because of it. It is, as we like to call it,”bad manners on steroids in the Twilight Zone.”
Great fun but I’m sure not for everyone. Sensitive parents of impressionable little ones, you’ve been warned.
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(PS. We’ll make up for this lapse in good taste with tomorrow’s resource.)
Oh my gosh! I remember this book from my childhood! I think we had it in English and German. No, I’m not as old as the dinosaurs, only 46. I’m looking forward to sharing these childhood lessons on manners and bad behaviors with my child. Thanks so much for putting it out there!
I usually love your freebies, but I don’t think this one is suitable for a contemporary UK audience due to some racist content.
When I showed my husband the cover of this book, he said, “I used to have this book, in German I think. I wonder if Mom still has it.” My husband was born in Frankfurt, Germany while his parents were serving in the military there.
After I downloaded it, I read most of it and remembered reading the story of “Augustus, who would not have any soup”. William Bennet included it in his “Book of Virtues”
I remember a little about this book from when I was a young girl. My mother used it for a ‘what not to do’ lesson.
I didn’t get to the link yesterday, but will check this book out at our local library as I’m wanting to read it again now.
I think it’s great to take a fresh look at some of the resources we’ve read years ago, to see what may have changed since then, or what stays the same.
My husband and I really got alot of good laughs reading through this one! We have a few thumb-suckers in our family and don’t think they would handle that story very well though : )