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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Simply wonderful comic verse,
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This review is from: Cautionary Verses (Hardcover)
Unlike most of the appreciators of Hilaire Belloc's comic verse for children, I first came to these wonderfully droll verses as an adult (I was brought up on Samuel Hoffenstein and Ogden Nash), but I have grown to love them as if I had known them since my earliest years (hey, that's the start of "Lord Lundy"). In his "Beasts", "Cautionary Tales" and "Peers" verses, Belloc achieves a delightful synthesis of the fearless straight-ahead gaze of childhood (in the tradition of "The Story of Augustus, Who Would Not Eat His Soup") with the style of absolutely dead-pan English humor (e.g. Stephen Potter's "Gamesmanship"). Do not neglect the verses in "Peers" and "More Peers"; "Lord Hippo" and "Lord Lucky" are the equal of "Matilda" and "Jim". Note for Lord Peter fans: Dorothy L. Sayers has Peter Wimsey quote several times from these Belloc poems.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
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Just desserts for wicked children!,
By Julie Garnet (jgarnet@optusnet.com.au) (Melbourne, Australia) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hilaire Belloc's Cautionary Verses (Paperback)
I was very young when I was given my first copy of this book and I have never managed to forget any of the characters or their crimes. I think most of us know of 'Matilda' who "told such dreadful lies, it made one gasp and stretch ones eyes" but I fear that few know what befell 'Rebecca' who slammed doors or 'Jim' who ran away. More importantly our children are wholly unaware of the consequences of misbehaving. This is a wonderful book full of illustrations and verse designed to amuse and caution us all and leaves us with a moral tale of 'Charles', who shows us "what Everybody might become by simply doing right."
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Deliciously warped. One of my favorite books as a child.,
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This review is from: Cautionary Verses (Hardcover)
My favorite is "Jim, Who Ran Away from his Nurse and Was Eaten by a Lion." I laughed til I cried. Another winner is "Henry King, Who Chewed Bits of String and Died in Dreadful Agony." Occasionally I read excerpts aloud to guests--they all laugh hysterically. This book was a gift from the same family friend (with a Harvard PhD in English) who brought Tom Leher's irreverent songs to my attention. Intelligent, clever and great fun! Kids (and adults) like a bit of pretend gore and silliness.
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