All digitized and free, from the University of Florida’s Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature
http://ufdc.ufl.edu/baldwin/all/thumbs
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Bookmarked!
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Ditto!
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Quick trip down a rabbit hole there…trying to find Strewelpeter. Found something close…not the same one that traumatized me as a child.
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Could be worse. “I’ll Love You Forever” traumatized me as an adult.
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Was it the matches story that got you?
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Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree” got me. (As an adult.) 
No, it was the actual Strewelpeter poem…“there he stands…with his nasty hair and hands…”
Soon to be followed by a vist from “the great long-legged scissor man…snip, snip, snip…”
Shudder!
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Well, my wife and kids loved that story. Freaked me the heck out. Mom is like the worst kind of stalker in a story that is supposed to be all sweet love.
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I haven’t read that one yet, but it sounds like something I wouldn’t care for either. 
Supposed to be cut heartwarming thing. All beautiful and stuff.
“I love you forever. I like you for always. As long as I’m living, my baby you’ll be.”
But very stalkerish throughout the book.
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According to some family friends, the only thing worse than seeing Struwwelpeter standing there gushing blood is having a copy of the book from which those pages have been excised, and having to imagine what happened. 
But I bet you learned to eat your soup…
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Yup! 
The Project Gutenberg eBook of Der Struwwelpeter, by Heinrich Hoffmann (German)
Project Gutenberg eBook of Struwwelpeter, Merry Stories and Funny Pictures, by Heinrich Hoffman (English)
“…for children of 3 - 6 years of age…” Yikes!
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Oh yikes! Yes, that’s the one! Illustrated version. Read at age four or five…stayed with me for a lifetime.
(Thanks ever so much Dennis…I’m going to go read it now…and won’t sleep tonight!) 
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Happy to help rekindle those treasured childhood memories.
At least it doesn’t have a story about little girls that won’t go to sleep…
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