A visually stunning reinterpretation of the fairy tale classic! Originally written in 1845 by German physician Heinrich Hoffmann Der Struwwelpeter reads like a fairy tale breaking loose from a doomed rollercoaster crashing through a rusty calliope and finally splashing into the miasmic ooze of Hell - but somehow still managing to float. Mesmerized as a child by the nightmarish prose and haunting images contained in the book noted author/illustrator Bob Staake gives a 21st century spin to these 14 stories - each more politically incorrect than the next. The nastiest things happen to children who disobey the wishes of their parents: thumb suckers have their digits cut off the pyro-fascinated are set ablaze and of course picky eaters rot away and die prematurely. In other words precisely the type of bedtime stories you'll want to read to a six-year-old... provided it's not you're six-year-old!