Grittle and His Fiddle

The following is from an archived Reddit post in the now deserted "Twisted Children Stories" subreddit. It is about a forgotten children's story called "Grittle and His Fiddle".__NOEDITSECTION__
=== The Post ===
(Posted by u/pissbucketchad 2 years ago)
Fellow Reddit users, did any of your teachers read this children's book to your class?
It's hard to remember for me, but I recall the name being something like: "Griddle and His Violin...or Cello...something close to that. I can't seem to find anything about it on Schoolastic and couldn't find it at any of my local libraries. I was thinking about buying it for my 2 kids.
(Posted by u/nostalgiaman2.0 2 years ago)
That sounds kind of familiar to me. I remember seeing a dog barking out that name in the story. But then again, I also used to have a lot of fever dreams when I was younger. Maybe dismiss what I have to say.
(Posted by u/koalaKicker 2 years ago)
OMG! I think I know what you're talking about (also, it's "Grittle and His Fiddle", not violin). The story was about this humanoid persian cat named Grittle who went to kids homes and entertained them by playing a tune on his fiddle. I remember the cover having Grittle wearing a top hat; he was playing his fiddle while the kids had these gigantic grins on their face. I remember the book "spine" (at least the rendition they gave us) had one of those yellowish covers with the little black drawings on them. It's hard to describe. 
(Posted by u/pissbucketchad 2 years ago)
TYSM! Memories flooded back when you mentioned the fiddle and the spine. I now remember the story a bit better. It said it was made by "Cherry Morgan". I remember the opening page had a drawing of a kid sitting on this very worn down bed. There were red squiggly lines on the corners of the page, and the words "Worthless brat. Silly little idiot!" being shouted in bold letters in the center of the page. I did not remember the story being that brutal.
(Posted by u/koalaKicker 1 year ago)
Sorry that it's been a while since I posted again (personal shit) but I have done some digging and I found a lot more about this story. The kids were abused constantly, like you mentioned. One image had a child with bruises and dents on her face and another with spilt beer bottles in a kitchen. I think they even implied one kid being a victim of C.S.A? Holy fuck, this story was dark. Then Grittle would enter right after the said child was yelled at and would begin playing his fiddle with the rhyme: "Why so blue? Come with me and wipe away the tears with this jolly tune! Come, come, come, now don't be blue. Follow me and you shall fly to the moon!" Then, after some big celebration with all the abused kids, they would go to bed peacefully, with him crawling up to the roof of their houses and then leaving.
(Posted by Opuslollipop 1 year ago)
Sorry to spoil the ending but that's not accurate, kicker of Koalas. He led them to the top of the roofs with him and took their hands and jumped into a tree. It ends with a loud "splat" written on the page. They end it with the book implying that "Grittle" was not real and the children jumped alone...
The rest of the post is missing.
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