Slovenly Betsy: The American Struwwelpeter

A 19th-century German physician won lasting fame for Struwwelpeter, his darkly humorous compilation of cautionary tales about naughty children.

Heinrich Hoffman’s Slovenly Betsy features the same perverse drollery as its predecessor.

Adults and children alike will revel in these quaintly illustrated rhyming stories of bad habits and their dire consequences.