Anticipating the Ghastly Crumb Tinies by more than 100 years, Struwwelpeter is one hell of a kids book, arranged as a series of stories whose sole aim is to scare your kids into right action. There's 'The Story of Kaspar Who Did Not Have Any Soup' about a young boy who stops eating his soup and dies, 'The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb' about a boy who wouldn't stop sucking his thumbs until a roving tailor cuts them off with a pair of giant scissors, and 'The Dreadful Story of Pauline and the Matches' whose premise is pretty well summed up by the title.
Friday, May 18, 2007
Cautionary Tales
Anticipating the Ghastly Crumb Tinies by more than 100 years, Struwwelpeter is one hell of a kids book, arranged as a series of stories whose sole aim is to scare your kids into right action. There's 'The Story of Kaspar Who Did Not Have Any Soup' about a young boy who stops eating his soup and dies, 'The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb' about a boy who wouldn't stop sucking his thumbs until a roving tailor cuts them off with a pair of giant scissors, and 'The Dreadful Story of Pauline and the Matches' whose premise is pretty well summed up by the title.
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