The Bad Child's Book of Beasts
 Cover of the 1918 edition | |
| Author | Hilaire Belloc |
|---|---|
| Illustrator | Basil Temple Blackwood |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Children's literature |
| Publisher | The Camelot Press Limited |
Publication date | 1896 |
| Followed by | More Beasts for Worse Children |
| Text | The Bad Child's Book of Beasts at Wikisource |
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts is an 1896 children's book written by Hilaire Belloc.[1][2][3] Illustrated by Basil Temple Blackwood, the superficially naive verses give tongue-in-cheek advice to children. In the book, the animals tend to be sage-like, and the humans dull and self-satisfied.[4] Within the first three months of its publication, The Bad Child's Book of Beasts sold 4,000 copies.[5]
Lord Alfred Douglas accused Belloc of plagiarizing his work Tales with a Twist, which, although published two years after The Bad Child's Book of Beasts, was, according to Douglas, written before Belloc's work.[6]
The illustrations have also drawn comparison to the works seen in Dr. Seuss books.[7]
References
- ↑ Cohen, Charles D. (2004). The Seuss, the whole Seuss, and nothing but the Seuss: a visual biography of Theodor Seuss Geisel. Random House, Inc. ISBN 0-375-82248-8.
- ↑ "The Nation Company". The Nation 65. December 9, 1897. ISSN 0027-8378. OCLC 1643268.
- ↑ Pearce, Joseph (2002). Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc. Ignatius Press. ISBN 0-89870-942-3.
- ↑ The Nation, p. 441.
- ↑ Pearce, p. 58.
- ↑ Pearce, p. 64.
- ↑ Cohen, p. 42.
External links
The full text of The Bad Child's Book Of Beasts at Wikisource
Media related to The Bad Child's Book Of Beasts at Wikimedia Commons
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