Hilaire Belloc, Author, Posy Simmonds, Illustrator Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers $15 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-82658-3
Belloc's heroine is one of several figures he conceived in satirizing the moralistic tales used in Edwardian England to instill proper behavior in children. Regrettably, Simmonds has illustrated one of the author's least hyperbolic--and thus least...
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Hilaire Belloc, Author, Edward Gorey, Illustrator Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $16 (72p) ISBN 978-0-15-100715-8
Edward Gorey discovered these darkly humorous verses by Hilaire Belloc (1870-1953) and created never-before-published drawings to accompany them in Cautionary Tales for Children. The pithy rhymes make examples out of ""Jim, who ran away from his...
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Hilaire Belloc, illus. by Mini Grey, Knopf, $19.99 (26p) ISBN 978-0-375-85970-0
Schoolboy Jim is a cousin to the ill-fated urchins of Struwwelpeter and The Gashlycrumb Tinies. In this macabre rhyme from Belloc's Cautionary Tales for Children (1907), re-engineered with interactive elements, Jim enjoys nice meals and toys, but...
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Hilaire Belloc, Author, Victoria Chess, Illustrator Little Brown and Company $4.95 (24p) ISBN 978-0-316-13816-1
Parents who will stop at nothing to make their children behave may want to present this Victorian cautionary talein good spirit, of course. Belloc's Jim is very well provided for in his self-controlled parents' home. The naughty boy defects, though,
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