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Only 14 left in stock (more on the way). This is another book like max and Moritz or struwwelpeter, full of dark cautionary tales about children who do awful things, like tell lies and burn for it, or eat pieces of string (was that really a thing back then?!), or are just plain nasty. The rest of the book is about beasts and the alphabet and are, in my opinion, Subpar to th verses but I think this is a great book and well worth the time.

Cautionary Verses book. The English-speaking world is divided into those who have already learned and inwardly digested Hilaire Belloc's cautionary verses, and those for whom that pleasure is still in store in the pages of the present volume. All the seven original books are here reprinted together, with all the original e 416 pages of moral instruction! Seven books in one! 381 inspiring pictures!

Child! do not throw this book about; Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure. Manufactured in the United States of America. CAUTIONARY TALES FOR CHILDREN Illustrated by B. . Introduction 3. Jim, Who ran away from his Nurse, and was eaten.

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Cautionary Tales for Children: Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years is a 1907 children's book written by Hilaire Belloc. It is a parody of the cautionary tales that were popular in the 19th century. The work is in the public domain in the United States.

Hilaire Belloc (Augustan books of Modern Poetry). One Hundred and one Ballades (1931). The Verse of Hilaire Belloc (1954). One Thing and Another. A Miscellany from his Uncollected Essays selected by Patrick Cahill (1955). Letters From Hilaire Belloc (1958). Nine Nines or Novenas from a Chinese Litany of Odd Numbers (1931). Advice: Hilaire Belloc's advice on wine, food and other matters (1960). Belloc: A Biographical Anthology (1970). Hilaire Belloc's Prefaces (1971).

The verses in Belloc’s Bad Child’s Book of Beasts and More Beasts for Worse Children are clever, but, to me, they lack the inspired nonsense of the Cautionary Tales, and the only one I still quote with irritating frequency i.

The verses in Belloc’s Bad Child’s Book of Beasts and More Beasts for Worse Children are clever, but, to me, they lack the inspired nonsense of the Cautionary Tales, and the only one I still quote with irritating frequency is The Crocodile, whose closing six-line crescendo spreads over five illustrated pages. He mourned her with Victorian rigor, closing the door to her bedroom in their West Sussex house and never reopening it during his lifetime. He did not remarry, and in time he was able to resume his hyperactive schedule-writing three or four books a year, sailing his boat, travelling, and lecturing in the United States whenever his funds ran short.

This is a chronological bibliography of books (with a few pamphlets) by the author Hilaire Belloc. Verses and Sonnets" (1896) poems, Ward and Downey.

Select Format: Hardcover. ISBN13: 9780099295310. Release Date: January 1995. Publisher: RED FOX BOOKS (RAND).