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    Cautionary Tales for Children
    Cautionary Tales for Children
    Cautionary Tales for Children
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    Cautionary Tales for Children

    By B. T. B. (Basil Temple Blackwood) and Hilaire Belloc

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateJan 1, 1973
    Cautionary Tales for Children

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    • 4/5
      One of those books for "children" that speak to readers of all ages. Belloc's wit rivals that of Lewis Carrol and others, over the years, have added to the literature of moral fables begun by Aesop.
    • 2/5
      Anyone who has read Edward Gorey, who may have been inspired by it, will be extremely disappointed in this mostly unfunny, rather unpleasantly illustrated tongue-in-cheek collection of stories of what happens to bad (or in one case, good) children. The rhymes are awkward, the stories lack humor, and it is difficult to see why the book has remained popular over the years. (I am reviewing the original edition, not the more recent edition with Gorey's illustrations.)
    • 4/5
      Funny, Dark and Horrifying.
    • 3/5
      A short book of 'cautionary' poems for children, in the spirit of "Where the Sidewalk Ends". Some of the poems are better than others, for instance, "Matilda, Who told lies, and was Burned to Death."
    • 3/5
      This knee slapper is almost 100 years old! Silly poems, rhyming couplets that mock Victorian poetry while telling of children who are punished horribly, eaten by lions and the like. Children will enjoy the ridiculousness, and enhance their vocabulary. Simple drawings by Edward Gorey are sure to please.
    • 5/5
      Very Funny, Definitly not for small children!

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    Cautionary Tales for Children - B. T. B. (Basil Temple Blackwood)

    Project Gutenberg's Cautionary Tales for Children, by Hilaire Belloc

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    Title: Cautionary Tales for Children

    Author: Hilaire Belloc

    Illustrator: Basil T.  Blackwood

    Release Date: December 5, 2008 [EBook #27424]

    Language: English

    *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK CAUTIONARY TALES FOR CHILDREN ***

    Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, Anne Storer and

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    CAUTIONARY TALES FOR CHILDREN

    CAUTIONARY TALES FOR

    CHILDREN

    Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages

    of eight and fourteen years

    Verses by

    H. BELLOC

    ———

    Pictures by

    B. T. B.

    DUCKWORTH

    3 HENRIETTA STREET, LONDON, W.C.

    First published by Eveleigh Nash, 1907

    First published by Gerald Duckworth & Co. Ltd., 1918

    Thirteenth Impression, 1957

    All rights reserved

    Made and Printed in Great Britain by

    Thomas Nelson and Sons Ltd

    London and Edinburgh

    DEDICATED

    TO

    BOBBY, JOHNNY, AND EDDIE

    SOMERSET

    INTRODUCTION

    Upon being asked by a Reader whether the verses contained in this book were true.

    And is it True? It is not True.

    And if it were it wouldn’t do,

    For people such as me and you

    Who pretty nearly all day long

    Are doing something rather wrong.

    Because if things were really so,

    You would have perished long ago,

    And I would not have lived to write

    The noble lines that meet your sight,

    Nor B. T. B. survived to draw

    The nicest things you ever saw.

    H. B.

    Jim,

    Who ran away from his Nurse, and was eaten by a Lion.

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