Cautionary Tales & Bad Child's Book of Beasts
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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.
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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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I enjoyed this greatly as a child, though I may not have caught all the jokes.
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Cautionary Tales & Bad Child's Book of Beasts - Hilaire Belloc
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