Wilhelm Busch

I inherited this jewel from an old family friend: 

Wilhelm Busch, Sammlung lustiger Bildergeschichten mit 1500 Bildern. Heiteres und Ernsters aus seiner Lebenswerkstatt (Hermann Klemm: Braunschweig, 1950). 

I read J a few stories from it a couple of years ago. "Der Hahnenkampf" was a favorite then, and still is. He wanted me to read it four times tonight.

We started a longer tale, "Schnurrdiburr, oder die Bienen." Ch. 2 features a piggy who gets stung. The bit in Low German at the bottom, "Wat hat dat Swien?" had J in tears with laughter; he kept asking me to read it over and over.  

By the way, the piggy looks dead, but isn't. Many of the stories in this book have animals—and people, especially children—coming to bad ends. It limits the appeal of Busch to a modern audience. This book has "Max und Moritz" as well, which I haven't read to J yet for that reason.