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.”
(“The Story of the Wild Huntsman”) is the only story not primarily focused on children. In it, a hare steals a hunter’s musket and eyeglasses and begins to hunt the hunter. In the ensuing chaos, the hare’s child is burned by hot coffee and the hunter jumps into a well.
lol wut?
Holy shit
Sounds like a German kiss story to me hah.
The children’s bible. /s
Aww cute bunnies!
Watership down.
Yeah, definitely not kid friendly. I’d much rather give them a light-hearted story about puppies, like The Plague Dogs.
I just got the graphic novel for my ten year old niece. She likes the bunnies. I am a great uncle.
Watership Down.
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH. That author’s imagination was daaaaark.
Where the Red Fern Grows (for older children)
Such a good book. But yeah even when at (all grown up) I read it to my son, I bawled
The Giving Tree
You need this: https://www.topherpayne.com/giving-tree
Amazing!! Thanks for sharing!
He fixed some other fairly-problematic titles, too. Check them out on that same site :)
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark. Actually just the art alone does the traumatizing really.
Have you seen those bullshit rerelease editions? SAD!
I would say almost all of them. At least the classics
No wonder we’re all empaths. And we used video games to escape our feelings.
= ADHD
I think The Velveteen Rabbit is pretty fucked.
Coraline. The book is significantly creepier than the movie and manages to perfectly strike the uncanny valley
Hans Christian Andersen fables. At least it traumatised me long ago, unlike any other fairy tale books, which i had plenty.
I don’t remember it very well, but I know I cried for like 2 hours when I finished “A Dog Called Kitty.”
Did anybody else read tangerine as a kid? I still think about it pretty often and I’m 30.
The Little Match Girl.
