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Language English Originally published 1896 Genre Children's literature | 3.9/5 Goodreads Publication date 1896 Illustrator Basil Temple Blackwood | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Publisher The Camelot Press Limited Followed by More Beasts for Worse Children Text The Bad Child's Book of Beasts at Wikisource Similar Hilaire Belloc books, Children's literature | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The bad child s book of beasts by hilaire belloc
The Bad Child's Book of Beasts is an 1896 children's book written by Hilaire Belloc. 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. Within the first three months of its publication, The Bad Child's Book of Beasts sold 4,000 copies.
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.
The illustrations have also drawn comparison to the works seen in Dr. Seuss books.
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