I would find it difficult to comprehend anyone not enjoying the stories recounted in this infamous, and influential, children's book. Written and illustrated by Frankfurt physician Heinrich Hoffman as a Christmas present for his 3-year old son, being somewhat dissatisfied with the dry and pedagogic available to children at the time. The verse contained within, accompanied with appropriate pictures, chronicles the fates of untoward children, for example those who torture animals, suck their thumbs, fidget at meals etc...
'The Story of Fidgety Philip'
'The Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb'
'The Story of a Man that went out Shooting' is perhaps my favourite:
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