Everyone has been getting ready for the big event: today, at the theater, “Poor Peter”, by Heinrich Heine, will be played by children and for children.

Actors get ready for the show while a big crowd of spectators is gathering. Then, finally, the story about Peter’s inability to get Margarita begins; that is something quite dramatic, exciting, and sometimes funny, as we can see in the audience’s reactions.

In this picture book, Peter Schössow narrates the old story about love and spitefulness. The observer, at the from row, attends the changing game of feelings between the stage and the audience.

“This book catches the reader up since the very first time” (Canal Lector)

“Poor Peter, by Peter Schössow, is a picture book of big size, an enormous and brilliant book” (Bienvenidos a la fiesta).

"A big format for a high quality work: the illustrator Peter Schössow shares by means of this book the innovative "stage action" of the poem "Poor Peter", by Henrich Heine, a classic of German Literature" (Cuatrogatos Foundation).