Tapfere kleine Soldaten : Ein Bilderbuch mit Kriegsgeschichten für lustige Knaben
Tapfere kleine Soldaten is a German picture book of war stories for cheerful boys, written by Therese Messerer and published by Gebrüder Scheitlin in 1867. The hand-coloured plates show groups of children playing at soldiers, with mismatched uniforms, toy-like muskets, a drummer, and a flag, set against a small town with a church spire. A designer could draw on their warm, naive colour and the staging of crowds of small figures in loose, comic battle scenes.
