First published in 1907 and in print ever since, Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Tales for Children<\/i> is a deliciously witty parody of the terribly serious moral tales for children, which were popular in Victorian times.<\/b><\/p>\n
Terrifying and funny at the same time, and with a true sense of the absurd, Belloc brings us the renowned ‘Jim, Who ran away from his nurse, and was eaten by a Lion’ and unfortunate ‘Rebecca, who slammed Doors for Fun and Perished Miserably’.<\/p>\n
As well as these stories and many more, this edition includes a selection of mischievous poems from The Bad Child’s Book of Beasts<\/i> and More Beasts for Worse Children<\/i>. This volume includes the original illustrations by Basil Temple Blackwood, known as B.T.B.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Written for children, enjoyed by grown-ups, Belloc’s hilarious and irreverent cautionary tales and poems have entertained for generations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[390],"product_tag":[27925,26933,26945,26949,891],"class_list":{"0":"post-102698","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","5":"product_cat-macmillan-collectors","6":"product_tag-anthologies-general","7":"product_tag-childrens-teenage-fiction-classic-fiction","8":"product_tag-childrens-teenage-fiction-short-stories","9":"product_tag-classic-fiction","10":"product_tag-humour-collections-anthologies","11":"pa_book_author-belloc-hilaire","12":"pa_cover-hardback","13":"pa_dewey-821-8-edition23","14":"pa_imprint-macmillan-collectors-library","15":"pa_language-english","16":"pa_pages-11977","17":"pa_publisher-macmillan-collectors-library","18":"pa_readership-young-adult-code-c","20":"first","21":"onbackorder","22":"taxable","23":"shipping-taxable","24":"purchasable","25":"product-type-simple"},"yoast_head":"\n