Struwwelpeter: Merry Tales and Funny Pictures: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Struwwelpeter: Merry Tales and Funny Pictures, credited to Heinrich Hoffman, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

Librivox recording of Struwwelpeter, by Heinrich Hoffman. (English translation) Read by Catharine Eastman. Struwwelpeter (Slovenly Peter) is an illustrated collection of humorous children’s poems describing ludicrous and usually violent punishments for naughty behavior. Hoffmann, a Frankfurt physician, wanted to buy a picture book for his son for Christmas in 1844. Not impressed by what the stores had to offer, he instead bought a notebook and wrote his own stories and pictures. While Struwwelpeter is somewhat notorious for its perceived brutal treatment of the erring children, it has been influential on many later children’s books, most notably Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. (Summary by Catharine and wikipedia.org)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Struwwelpeter: Merry Tales and Funny Pictures
• Author credits: Heinrich Hoffman
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 1
• Listed recording duration: 21:18

Catalogue topics

• children
• poetry

Track guide

1. Struwwelpeter: Merry Tales and Funny Pictures — 21:18

Listen to this recording

Open the complete recording and player on Internet Archive. The player includes the full track list and available download formats.

Source and rights

This is a record from LibriVox's official Internet Archive collection, with a public-domain licence recorded in its metadata. LibriVox's policy includes its catalogue summaries as well as its recordings. Its public-domain assessment follows United States law; copyright status can differ elsewhere. The summary and track facts are reproduced and reformatted from that record. Dates attached to the archive upload are not treated as original book publication dates.