Cautionary Tales for Children
Also including: A Moral Alphabet; A Bad Child's Book of Beasts; More Beasts for Worse Children
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Publisher Description
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.'
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Edward Gorey discovered these darkly humorous verses by Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) and created never-before-published drawings to accompany them in Cautionary Tales for Children. The pithy rhymes make examples out of "Jim, who ran away from his Nurse, and was eaten by a Lion," and "Matilda, who told lies, and was Burned to Death," among others.