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What is your favorite kid friendly book made just for traumatizing children? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 months ago by vis4valentine@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] MrsDoyle@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Struwwelpeter. We had an English copy handed down by my grandfather. It's insane.

Example: "Die gar traurige Geschichte mit dem Feuerzeug ("The Very Sad Tale with the Matches"): A girl plays with matches, accidentally ignites herself and burns to death. Only her cats mourn her."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struwwelpeter

[–] ChexMax@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Did anybody else read tangerine as a kid? I still think about it pretty often and I'm 30.

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

My brother was assigned that in school and we had it in the RV on a camping trip, so I picked it up and read it one evening. Both the info on citrus growing, and the violence, are things I still remember. Fucked up.

Was it assigned reading? Where did you go to school? I've always wondered if that book made it into reading lists anywhere outside of Florida.

[–] ChexMax@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Yep, assigned reading in Florida