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Slovenly Betsy

Heinrich Hoffmann

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Slovenly Betsy

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Hienrich Hoffman was a German psychiatrist and doctor. He had written poetry and sketches for his son, and was persuaded to have a collection of these printed.
The stories were not perceived as cruel or overly moral by Hoffmann's contemporaries.
hed at her,
And she almost died with shame.
She turned, and to her home she ran,
And then, as here you see,
She washed her clothes, and since has been
As neat as she could be.
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PHOEBE ANN, THE PROUD GIRL

This Phoebe Ann was a very proud girl,
Her nose had always an upward curl.
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She thought herself better than all others beside,
And beat even the peacock himself in pride.
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She thought the earth was so dirty and brown,
That never, by chance, would she look down;
And she held up her head in the air so high
That her neck began stretching by and by.
It stretched and it stretched; and it grew so long
That her parents thought something must be wrong.
It stretched and stretched, and they soon began
To look up with fear at their Phoebe Ann.
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Forest 12/31/2022
I've laughed for ages looking through these pages. Would I ever give it to a child? Absolutely not, but is it the most hilarious book I've ever seen? 100%.
Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ 03/25/2020
I've had a lifelong, highly irrational love for Struwwelpeter, a gruesome set of German cautionary children's tales from 1845, set to rhyme, so when karen's review alerted me to the fact that Heinrich Hoffman wrote more of this bloodthirsty didactic poetry,* I was all over it, like Paulinchen is wit
Clementine 05/18/2008
Hmmmm...is this kid-friendly? I guess the part about Pauline's apron catching on fire may give way to nightmares, but I'd take it over Disney princesses any day.

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