Clara Blackwood

Cautionary Tales for Children: Designed for the Admonition of Children between the ages of eight and fourteen years is a 1907 children's book written by Hilaire Belloc. It is a parody of the cautionary tales that were popular in the 19th century. The poems are a sardonic critique of Victorian era upper class society. The work is in the public domain in the United States. Illustrated by Belloc's friend from Oxford, Basil Temple Blackwood, it is similar in style to The Bad Child's Book of Beasts, …