Cautionary Tales & Bad Child's Book of Beasts

By Hilaire Belloc

Naughty children were never funnier than the young rowdies of these Cautionary Tales. In rhyming couplets, accompanied by hilarious drawings, a celebrated wit recounts the perilous consequences of telling lies, slamming doors, and playing with guns. Bad Child's Book of Beasts, an illustrated A-to-Z bestiary with droll observations on wildlife, features a series of droll observations on wildlife.
The Polar Bear is unaware
Of cold that cuts me through
For why? He has a coat of hair.
I wish I had one too!
A prolific author whose interests ranged from politics and religion to travel and poetry, Hilaire Belloc wrote these classics at the turn of the twentieth century. Generations of readers of all ages have adored their amusing advice on juvenile manners and their jolly parodies of Victorian attitudes.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Release date: Mar 5, 2014
• ISBN: 9780486174204

Hilaire Belloc

Hilaire Belloc was born in France in 1870. As a child, he moved with his mother and siblings to England. As a French citizen, he did his military service in France before going to Oxford University, where he was president of the Union debating society. He took British citizenship in 1902 and was a member of parliament for several years. A prolific and versatile writer of over 150 books, he is best remembered for his comic and light verse. But he also wrote extensively about politics, history, nature and contemporary society. Famously adversarial, he is remembered for his long-running feud with H. G. Wells. He died in in Surrey, England, in 1953.

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Cautionary Tales & Bad Child’s Book of Beasts

Hilaire Belloc

Illustrated by

B.T.B.

Dover Publications, Inc.

Mineola, New York

Bibliographical Note

This Dover edition, first published in 2008, is an unabridged republication of Cautionary Tales for Children: Designed for the Admonition of Children Between the Ages of Eight and Fourteen Years (1907) and The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts (1896), by Hilaire Belloc with illustrations by B.T.B. (Lord Ian Basil Blackwood), originally published by Duckworth and Co., London.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Belloc, Hilaire, 1870–1953.

[Cautionary tales for children]

Cautionary tales ; &, Bad child’s book of beasts / Hilaire Belloc ; illustrated by B.T.B.

        p. cm.

Cautionary tales for children originally published in 1907. Bad child’s book of beasts originally published in 1896.

eISBN-13: 978-0-486-17420-4 (pbk.)

ISBN-10: 0-486-46785-6 (pbk.)

  1. Conduct of life—Juvenile poetry. 2. Children’s poetry, English. I. B. T. B. (Basil Temple Blackwood), 1870–1917, ill. II. Belloc, Hilaire, 1870–1953. Bad child’s book of beasts. III. Title. IV. Title: Bad child’s book of beasts.

PR6003.E45C34 2008

821'.912—dc22

2008020621

Manufactured in the United States of America

Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501

CONTENTS

CAUTIONARY TALES FOR CHILDREN

Introduction

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

Henry King, Who chewed bits of String, and was early cut off in Dreadful Agonies

Matilda, Who told Lies, and was Burned to Death

Franklin Hyde, Who caroused in the Dirt and was corrected by His Uncle

Godolphin Horne, Who was cursed with the

Reviews for Cautionary Tales & Bad Child's Book of Beasts

[antiquary_1 · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

I enjoyed this greatly as a child, though I may not have caught all the jokes.