Cautionary Tales for Children
by Edward Gorey
from Harcourt
For those children prone to wandering off from their caretakers, there is the story of a certain young Jim, "who ran away from his nurse and was eaten by a lion." Those known to stretch the truth will hardly be comforted by the tale of Matilda, "who told lies and was burned to death." And as for those of us--and our children--who tend to the vainglorious, there is the sobering tale of Godolphin Horne, "who was cursed with the sin of pride and became a boot-black."
Witty, brilliant, and strikingly irreverent.
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts; More Beasts for Worse Children; A Moral Alphabet (3 Books Bound as One)
Humorous and cautionary verses about such animals as the whale, the polar bear, the frog, the dodo, and the yak.
Matilda Who told Lies (Picture Puffin)
Meet Matilda, whose unfortunate habit of lying leads her to an unusually unfortunate fate. Grinning, sneering, and smirking, Matilda is the timeless sister of the boy who cried wolf in this hilarious Victorian cautionary tale with deliciously wicked two-color illustrations.
The yak, the python, the frog
Cautionary tales for children,: Designed for the admonition of children between the ages of eight and fourteen years
Jim, Who Ran Away from His Nurse, and Was Eaten by a Lion: A Cautionary Tale
Describes the terrible fate that befell a disobedient little boy at the zoo.
More Beasts for Worse Children
Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (1870-1953) was one of the most prolific writers in England during the early twentieth century. His best travel writing has secured a permanent following. The Path to Rome (1902), an account of a walking pilgrimage he made from central France across the Alps and down to Rome, has remained continuously in print. More than a mere travelogue, The Path to Rome contains descriptions of the people and places he encountered, his drawings in pencil and in ink of the route, humour, poesy, and the reflections of a large mind turned to the events of his time as he marches along his solitary way. At every turn, Belloc shows himself to be profoundly in love with Europe and with the Faith that he claims has produced it. Two of his best known non-fiction works are The Servile State (1912) and Europe and Faith (1920). Among his other works are: Avril: Being Essays on the Poetry of the French Renaissance (1904), The Historic Thames (1907), On Nothing and Kindred Subjects (1908), Hills and the Sea (1913), A General Sketch of the European War (1915), and The Free Press (1917).
Hilaire Belloc's the Yak, the Python and the Frog: A Picture Book Production
Appraises in rhyme various aspects of the yak, the python, and the frog.
Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary tales (Gregg Press children's literature series)
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