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Heinrich Hoffmann. Slovenly Peter; or, Happy Tales and Funny Pictures [Freely translated by Mark Twain]. New York: Harper, 1935.

Hoffman wrote Der Struwwelpeter in 1845 as a satire of the overly moralistic children’s stories that were popular in Germany at the time.  Both the original book and Twain’s English translation were done as Christmas gifts for their children.