Heinrich Hoffmann

  • The Story of Johnny-Head-in-Air

    From “The English Struwwelpeter”
    AS he trudged along to school,
    It was always Johnny’s rule
    To be looking at the sky
    And the clouds that floated by;
    But what just before him lay,
    In his way,
    Johnny never thought about;
    So that every...

  • The Dreadful Story about Harriet and the Matches

    From “The English Struwwelpeter”
    IT almost makes me cry to tell
    What foolish Harriet befel.
    Mamma and Nurse went out one day
    And left her all alone at play;
    Now, on the table close at hand,
    A box of matches chanced to stand;
    And kind Mamma...

  • The Story of Cruel Frederick

    From “The English Struwwelpeter”
    HERE is cruel Frederick, see!
    A horrid wicked boy was he;
    He caught the flies, poor little things,
    And then tore off their tiny wings.

    He killed the birds, and broke the chairs,
    And threw the kitten down the stairs...