Book title from my childhood including a character with scissors for fingers?

I remember a kids book from when I was young. It was a German & English book - read one way it was in English but read back-to-front it was in German. I think it was a collection of ‘fairytales’ the main one I remember was about a character who went around using his scissor fingers to chop off the thumbs of kids who sucked their thumbs, & I believe this character was used on the front cover of the book. Does anyone else remember this book or what it was called?