Cautionary Tales for Children by Hilaire Belloc

Then again, it’s impossible for me to rate these objectively (but I don’t care). Inevitably there are a few duffers, but the best are sublime.

This volume also includes a Moral Alphabet and shorter poems about peers (aristocrats) and beasts, but for us, it was and is about the Cautionary Tales. A few good children do well (obedience leading to inheritance, for example), but they’re less fun.

The cautions are a quirky mix of bizarre, gory, hyperbolic, and (just occasionally) sensible. You should have heard her Scream and Bawl,įor a slightly more adult slant on this idea, in prose, see Saki's brilliant short story The Open Window, which I reviewed HERE. Nor have I suffered deleterious consequences of making faces, throwing stones, or being unable to read. Not that I was ever scared by these tales, perhaps in part because each one opens with a spoiler, and thereafter, I knew them anyway. Perhaps I have Belloc to thank for the fact I haven’t (yet) died as a result of chewing bits of string, slamming doors, telling dreadful lies, playing with a loaded gun, or running away from my nurse/nanny into the jaws of a hungry lion. To this day, I know many of them by heart and I can only hear or read them with his delicious intonation. He read (and sung) other things, but these were always the favourites. My father regularly read these poems to me with melodramatic intonation when I was a child. This is the stuff of formative childhood memories. Two voices: sometimes taking turns, sometimes in unison. This is free download Cautionary Tales for Children by Hilaire Belloc complete book soft copy.Pictures for full multi-sensory immersion. Click on below buttons to start Download Cautionary Tales for Children by Hilaire Belloc PDF EPUB without registration. If you are still wondering how to get free PDF EPUB of book Cautionary Tales for Children by Hilaire Belloc. PDF / EPUB File Name: Cautionary_Tales_for_Children_-_Hilaire_Belloc.pdf, Cautionary_Tales_for_Children_-_Hilaire_Belloc.epub.Book Genre: Art, Childrens, Classics, Fiction, Graphic Novels, Horror, Humor, Picture Books, Poetry, Sequential Art, Short Stories.Full Book Name: Cautionary Tales for Children.Cautionary Tales for Children by Hilaire Belloc – eBook Detailsīefore you start Complete Cautionary Tales for Children PDF EPUB by Hilaire Belloc Download, you can read below technical ebook details: