is based on a wonderful german children's book called struwwelpeter    here's some wiki loving  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struwwelpeter Der Struwwelpeter  (1845) is a popular  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