'Slovenly Betsy' is a children's rhyme book written by Heinrich Hoffmann. These rhymes, which combine elements of Roald Dahl, Charles Addams, and the Old Testam

Hoffmann, a 19th-century German physician, gained lasting fame for writing Struwwelpeter, a darkly humorous compilation of cautionary tales about naughty childr

Meet Slovenly Kate, Envious Tom, Tell-Tale Jenny, and other disagreeablecharacters in this comic collection ofcautionary tales. Originally published in1874 as p

Have children ever really had a literature of their own? In Sticks and Stones, Jack Zipes explores children's literature, from the grissly moralism of Slovenly

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