[ComicMike]

What a nice surprise, thanks Lyons. I've never read "my" Wilhelm Busch in English. Since I know the stories more or less by heart, I'm also pleasantly surprised at how well the translation into English turned out. Up until the 1970s, Busch's stories could be found in every German children's room, but then this was no longer the case because the stories were considered too brutal. Today the stories are no longer viewed as children's stories, but "simply" as picture story literature, as a treasure and classic of German literature. By the way, Busch was also a very good painter, his oil paintings seem timeless. And moreover, Busch also wrote pure poems, i.e. without illustrations. These are humorous as usual, but also contain deep insights into life and human nature. Busch spent his youth in a small village in southern Lower Saxony, just a stone's throw away from the village where I grew up. :-)

Link to the book: Max and Maurice