Struwwelpeter
![Struwwelpeter in a 1917 edition.](/Images/godic/202502/13/H_Hoffmann_Struwwel_031105.jpg")
![Nikolas, as he is about to dunk three boys in his inkstand. Illustration from a 1917 edition.](/Images/godic/202502/13/H_Hoffmann_Struwwel_101105.jpg")
![Zappel-Philipp. Illustration from the 1845 edition.](/Images/godic/202502/13/Struwwelpeter_21105.jpg")
![Struwwelpeter Soup rim bowl featuring the story of fidgety Phillip and on the edge the story of the Soup-Kaspar](/Images/godic/202502/13/Warmhalteteller_Suppenkaspar_Berlin_SlgKiJu1105.jpg")
Der Struwwelpeter (1845) (or Shockheaded Peter) is a German children's book by Heinrich Hoffmann. It comprises ten illustrated and rhymed stories, mostly about children. Each has a clear moral that demonstrates the disastrous consequences of misbehavior in an exaggerated way. The title of the first story provides the title of the whole book.