Cautionary Tales for Children (Audible Audio Edition) Hilaire Belloc Linda Barrans Spoken Realms Books
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The Victorians had a fondness for scaring their offspring straight with cautionary tales - moral stories featuring children who misbehaved and suffered the consequences. Lewis Carroll mocks them gently when he says that Alice "had read several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them such as, that a red-hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long; and that if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife, it usually bleeds; and...if you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison', it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later."
Hilaire Belloc goes one further. His Cautionary Tales are a parody of the Victorian moral fables irresistible, irreverent and downright jolly. We meet, among other wonderful characters, 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; and Matilda, who told lies, and was burned to death.
Cautionary Tales is a lesson in how to face disaster and catastrophe with British stoicism and understatement
Now just imagine how it feels
When first your toes and then your
And then by gradual degrees,
Your shins and ankles, calves and knees,
Are slowly eaten, bit by bit.
No wonder Jim detested it!
Cautionary Tales for Children (Audible Audio Edition) Hilaire Belloc Linda Barrans Spoken Realms Books
My rating is missing a few stars, for this book is missing a few chapters. It's abridged, though you won't find that in the description or anywhere on the actual volume itself.included in this delightfully illustrated volume are the following short stories, all told in verse:
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.
However, the proper, full text by Hilaire Belloc, also ought include the following additional four stories (or five, depending on how you count poor Lundy.):
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 last of which stories, about Charles, seems not to fit with Gorey's somewhat gory themed books, for it contains the lone story of redemption, a lone example of exemplary virtue in a child. It's nice to end on a high note.
My favorite story, that of Rebecca (who perished miserably) you will have to get from a different volume. (You can find the full thing on Project Gutenberg's website, for the story with original illustrations is out of copyright.)
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Cautionary Tales for Children (Audible Audio Edition) Hilaire Belloc Linda Barrans Spoken Realms Books Reviews
Belloc would be angry with this the original edition was interspersed with illustrations vital to the verse, eg "..she looked like this" where "this" showed Rebecca looking something like a pancake. More seriously, the transcribers have omitted parts of verses, thereby destroying Belloc's couplets.
One wonders who, with options wide
would name their screaming, new born baby Clyde?
Or
Even Hilaire -- a name so florid, French, and rude,
Seems pre-destined to start a feud.
Or
Inspire a Belle Edward of francs and also quids,
to scribble moral poems to reckless, dirty kids.
But
Scribble poems Hilaire he did, and books and also letters,
This funny man Belloc would often best his betters.
Hillaire Belloc's Cautionary Tales For Children, originally published in 1907, is a collection of tongue in cheek poems that would likely send today's political correctness enforcers into full out frenzy. As one example, the first poem is about a young boy visiting the zoo with his nanny. The kid disobeys his nanny and, as a direct consequence of his disobedience, gets eaten by one of the zoo's lions.
The book is a classic.
The only problem with this free download is that it only includes the text; it leaves out the original Blackwood illustrations and the later Edward Gorey illustrations, both of which which definitely added an extra something special to Belloc's great writing. Belloc's poems are great but the original Blackwood and the later Edward Gorey illustrations complement the poetry very well.
If you're not familiar with this classic book, download this free version to check it out. If you (and the kids in your life) like Belloc's verse, then buy a print or e-book version with the original Blackwood or Edward Gorey illustrations.
The introduction in poem form says it all. Is this book true?
And is it True? It is not True.
And if it were it wouldn't do,
For people such as me and you
Who pretty nearly all day long
Are doing something rather wrong.
Because if things were really so,
You would have perished long ago.
These poems are "not the nicest things you ever saw." And mostly parents will think they're not right for children to read. But the children may enjoy them and laugh along, for they know that life isn't all peaches and cream.I mean, a disobedient boy named Jim being eaten by a lion at the zoo, beginning at the boy's feet and working upward! Let that be a lesson to you, young reader, not to be disobedient. Stick with your parents when they tell you to do so.
How about Henry King who chewed and swallowed string? Why, he became all tied up in knots inside and the physicians couldn't do anything about it. So the poor boy died.Then there's Matilda who cried FIRE and brought the firetrucks to her house. And the time she again cried FIRE when there was a fire--well, guess the rest.
So if you and your kids can stand to face reality, this book has it in singing cadence, clever rhymes and spades (what you use to dig graves with.)
I love this book by Hilaire Belloc. I loved his poems as a child and bought this book to give to a friend's child so he can also enjoy Belloc's poetry and cautionary tales.
Unfortunately this particular publishing is extremely disappointing and substandard. The typesetting and image placement is careless and unprofessional. Titles of the poems are not formatted to with spaces or page breaks and in some cases are not even on the same page as the poem. The text does not always appear with the corresponding image. The illustrations have been scanned and reproduced in very poor resolution and are pixelated.
I'm extremely disappointed and will have to reorder another version.
My rating is missing a few stars, for this book is missing a few chapters. It's abridged, though you won't find that in the description or anywhere on the actual volume itself.
included in this delightfully illustrated volume are the following short stories, all told in verse
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.
However, the proper, full text by Hilaire Belloc, also ought include the following additional four stories (or five, depending on how you count poor Lundy.)
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 last of which stories, about Charles, seems not to fit with Gorey's somewhat gory themed books, for it contains the lone story of redemption, a lone example of exemplary virtue in a child. It's nice to end on a high note.
My favorite story, that of Rebecca (who perished miserably) you will have to get from a different volume. (You can find the full thing on Project Gutenberg's website, for the story with original illustrations is out of copyright.)
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