Cautionary Tales for Children - Softcover

Belloc, Hilaire

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1604595760 ISBN 13: 9781604595765

Publisher: SMK Books, 2009

Synopsis

"Cautionary Tales are traditional folklore stories used to teach children of dangers. Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales have been warning children from danger for over a hundred years. This Book also includes three more of Belloc's works, A Moral Alphabet, A Bad Child's Book of Beasts and More Beasts for Worse Children."

About this title

About the Author:

Hilaire Belloc was born in France and educated at Newman's Oratory School and at Balliol College, Oxford. From 1906 to 1910 he was Liberal MP for Salford and literary editor of the Morning Post. As well as writing books of verse and novels, he also wrote on religious, social and political topics.

From School Library Journal:

Adult/High School-Tales is written in the style of a picture book, with sprightly little rhymes that speak of the foibles of children and the horrible consequences thereof. First penned nearly a century ago, the sort of story that Belloc parodies continues to be written today and read to youngsters, but readers who are more sophisticated will better appreciate these tales of disproportionate punishment. Children are whimsically eaten by lions or consigned to life as a bootblack for their sins-or, by contrast, a boy who fires a loaded gun at his sister is reprimanded sternly. Gorey's artfully antiquated style exactly fits Belloc's writing and brings this edition to life-a single pen-and-ink line shows the sister's satisfaction at hearing her brother called to task. The previously unpublished illustrations meticulously convey texture, such as the clothing of the myriad physicians called in to help poor Henry King who swallowed string, and the expressions of the self-satisfied adults seem so earnestly and seriously drawn as to make the whole that much more humorous. The art is refined and genteel-never gory. Teenagers will enjoy this quick and cathartic read.
Paul Brink, Fairfax County Public Library System, VA
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About this edition

• Publisher: SMK Books
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1604595760
• ISBN 13: 9781604595765
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 48