Abe Lincoln Laughing

[Eva Elisabeth]

Amazing. Honestly as for German children's books of that century I cannot think of anything but the Brothers Grimms' tales, the "Struwwelpeter" (1844), and "Max and Moritz" (1865) and other Bush tales. Definitely no bios. All have in common that they intended to teach about good and bad and that the good finally will get rewarded while all things bad will lead to suffer Hell. All are pretty brutal from nowadays' point of view, the idea once even came up to prohibit exposing kids to that old traditional literature.

What about the old Lincoln children's books? (I wouldn't expect them to be brutal, but what about educational goals? What features where emphasized?)