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

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  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Cautionary Tales & Bad Child's Book of Beasts

About this book

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.

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Information

Year
2014
eBook ISBN
9780486174204
Print ISBN
9780486467856

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Cautionary Tales for Children
  6. Introduction
  7. Jim, Who ran away from his Nurse, and was eaten by a Lion
  8. Henry King, Who chewed bits of String, and was early cut off in Dreadful Agonies
  9. Matilda, Who told Lies, and was Burned to Death
  10. Franklin Hyde, Who caroused in the Dirt and was corrected by His Uncle
  11. Godolphin Horne, Who was cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black
  12. Algernon, Who played with a Loaded Gun, and, on missing his Sister, was reprimanded by his Father
  13. Hildebrand, Who was frightened by a Passing Motor, and was brought to Reason
  14. Lord Lundy, Who was too Freely Moved to Tears, and thereby ruined his Political Career
  15. Lord Lundy (Second Canto)
  16. Rebecca, Who slammed Doors for Fun and Perished Miserably
  17. George, Who played with a Dangerous Toy, and suffered a Catastrophe of considerable Dimensions
  18. Charles Augustus Fortescue, Who always Did what was Right, and so accumulated an Immense Fortune
  19. The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts
  20. Dedication
  21. Introduction
  22. The Yak
  23. The Polar Bear
  24. The Lion
  25. The Tiger
  26. The Dromedary
  27. The Whale
  28. The Camel
  29. The Hippopotamus
  30. The Dodo
  31. The Marmozet
  32. The Camelopard
  33. The Learned Fish
  34. The Elephant
  35. The Big Baboon
  36. The Rhinoceros
  37. The Frog