Editing Struwwelpeter (section)

===Film and TV===
In a 1991 edition of the [[Thames Television]] detective series ''[[Van der Valk]]'', entitled "Doctor Hoffman's Children," the detective, played by [[Barry Foster (actor)|Barry Foster]], solves a series of murders after finding the book in the bedroom of his house, when his wife relates the tale of the scissorman to their granddaughter. The murders were all done in the style of events in the book.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRXTOwssal0 "Doctor Hoffman's Children,"] ''Van Der Valk'' season 4 episode 1 (1991), where the book is used to solve the murders.</ref>

Brief references are made to the book in the film ''[[Woman in Gold (film)|Woman in Gold]]'' (2015), when the central character reminisces about her youth in [[Vienna]] during the [[Anschluss]].

''[[The Office (U.S. TV series)|The Office]]'' references the book in Season 2, Episode 18: "[[Take Your Daughter to Work Day (The Office)|Take Your Daughter to Work Day]]" (2006). [[Dwight Schrute]] reads ''The story of Johnny head-in-the-air'' and ''The story of the thumb sucker''  to the children, but is interrupted by a horrified [[Michael Scott (The Office)|Michael Scott]].

''[[Family Guy]]'' references the "Story of Little Suck-a-Thumb" in a cutaway gag in "[[Business Guy]],"<ref name="Hoffman entry"/> the ninth episode in the eighth season, produced in 2009.

In ''[[Doctor Who]]'' Season 10 Episode 3 "[[Thin Ice (Doctor Who episode)|Thin Ice]]" (2017), The Doctor reads part of "The Story of the Thumb-Sucker" to the children of 1814 London.