Cautionary Tales for Children Review
Most of the reviews here are for the Edward Gorey version of Cautionary Tales. That's a really fun book, but readers should know that Belloc's little poems are a delight even without the pictures.
Kids absolutely love them and are shocked by their wit. These poems give kids credit for being sharp enough get the joke---and not need absolutely everything sugar coated. When my daughter was six she was told to come to school with a poem to recite. Most of the kids had nursery rhymes or well known American poems. My daughter brought Belloc's The Lion and The Tiger. The teacher, who knew nothing was the poems, got a huge kick out of them, expecially The Tiger with its dry recommendation that "mother's of large families who heed to common sense, will find a tiger well repays the trouble, and expense."
Cautionary Tales for Children Feature
- ISBN13: 9780151007158
- Condition: New
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Cautionary Tales for Children Overview
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.
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Customer Reviews
Kindle edition is awful - Glen Campbell - Morgan Hill, CA USA
This is a brilliant book, of course, which has been utterly destroyed by the Kindle edition. All the lines of verse have been lost and instead the text is wrapped to solid justification, which makes it terrible to read. Formatting is nonexistent; instead of italics, it uses _underscores around phrases_, which is annoying. I strongly recommend avoiding this issue.
Short and to the point...but still short - Steven Warfield - Scotia, NY
The tales themselves are either going to entertain or prompt eye rolling (seriously, "Matilda, Who told Lies, and was Burned to Death" could have really just gotten away with the title), and the artwork does a good job of giving an impression of the times that the stories were probably written.
The book didn't take me longer than 20 minutes to read through; glad that I had borrowed it from the library.
Revisiting CAutionary Tales - L. M. Greig - Wellington New Zealand
This was one of the loved books of my childhood in the original edition, of course.
I hadn't seen it for a very long time and was anxious to haev a copy for my younger grandchildren. Though old people can enjoy it as well.
Now plesed to have it on my own shelves
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