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===Literature=== English author [[Edward Harold Begbie]]'s first published book, ''The Political Struwwelpeter'' (1898), is of British politics, with the [[Royal Arms of England|British Lion]] is as Struwwelpeter, "bedraggled, with long, uncut claws."<ref>Sherefkin, Jack. [https://www.nypl.org/blog/2013/05/15/influence-struwwelpeter "The Influence of Struwwelpeter,"] New York Public Library website (15 May 2013).</ref> [[W. H. Auden]] refers to the Scissor-Man in his 1930 poem "The Witnesses" (also known as "The Two"): {{blockquote|And now with sudden swift emergence<br />Come the women in dark glasses, the humpbacked surgeons<br />And the Scissor Man.}} [[Adolf Hitler]] was parodied as a ''Struwwelpeter'' caricature in 1941 in a book called ''Struwwelhitler'', published in Britain under the pseudonym [[Dr. Schrecklichkeit]] (Dr. Horrors).<ref name="Hoffman entry"/> The "Story of Soup-Kaspar" is parodied in [[Astrid Lindgren]]'s ''[[Pippi Longstocking]]'' (1945), with a tall story about a Chinese boy named Peter who refuses to eat a swallow's nest served to him by his father, and dies of starvation five months later. English illustrator [[Charles Folkard]]'s imaginative study "A Nonsense Miscellany," published in 1956 in [[Roger Lancelyn Green]]'s anthology ''The Book of Nonsense, by Many Authors'', is a seaside scene that incorporated [[Baron Munchausen]], ''Struwwelpeter'', and a variety of characters from the works of [[Lewis Carroll]] and [[Edward Lear]].<ref>Dalby, Richard (1991), ''The Golden Age of Children's Book Illustration'', Gallery Books, p. 111. {{ISBN|0-8317-3910-X}}</ref> [[Jamie Rix]] said that the book inspired him to create ''[[Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids]]'' when his publisher asked him to write more short stories about rude children.<ref name="creatives">{{cite web |title=Honeycomb Animation: The Grizzly Creatives |date=6 April 2011 |url=https://grizzlytales.blogspot.com/2011/04/gruesome-creatives.html |publisher=[[Blogspot]] |access-date=20 November 2019}}</ref> His mother had given him the book as a child and the stories gave him nightmares.<ref name="creatives"/> Rix wanted to create a similar series of books for his children's generation.<ref name="creatives"/> ''Der Fall Struwwelpeter'' ("The Struwwelpeter Case"), 1989, by Jörg M. Günther is a satirical treatment in which the various misdeeds in the story - both by the protagonists and their surroundings - are analyzed via the regulations of the German [[Strafgesetzbuch]]. The [[Jasper Fforde]] fantasy/mystery novel ''[[The Fourth Bear]]'' (Hodder & Stoughton, 2006) opens with a police [[sting operation]] by the Nursery Crime Division to arrest the Scissorman.
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