Cautionary Tales & Bad Child's Book of Beasts

Hilaire Belloc

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780486467856
• eBook ISBN: 9780486174204

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title page
• Copyright
• 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 Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black
• Algernon, Who played with a Loaded Gun, and, on missing his Sister, was reprimanded by his Father
• Hildebrand, Who was frightened by a Passing Motor, and was brought to Reason
• Lord Lundy, Who was too Freely Moved to Tears, and thereby ruined his Political Career
• Lord Lundy (Second Canto)
• Rebecca, Who slammed Doors for Fun and Perished Miserably
• George, Who played with a Dangerous Toy, and suffered a Catastrophe of considerable Dimensions
• Charles Augustus Fortescue, Who always Did what was Right, and so accumulated an Immense Fortune
• The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts
• Dedication
• Introduction
• The Yak
• The Polar Bear
• The Lion
• The Tiger
• The Dromedary
• The Whale
• The Camel
• The Hippopotamus
• The Dodo
• The Marmozet
• The Camelopard
• The Learned Fish
• The Elephant
• The Big Baboon
• The Rhinoceros
• The Frog