TY - BOOK AU - Belloc,Hilaire AU - B.T.B. TI - The Bad Child's Book of Beasts AV - PZ PY - 2008/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Children's poetry, English KW - Nonsense verses KW - Animals -- Juvenile poetry N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bad_Child%27s_Book_of_Beasts; Release date is 2008-11-06; Produced by Chris Curnow, Joseph Cooper, some images courtesy of The Internet Archive and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Bad Child's Book of Beasts" by Hilaire Belloc is a children's book published in 1896. Through superficially naive verses and playful illustrations, this tongue-in-cheek work offers mock advice to young readers. The poems feature sage-like animals contrasted against dull, self-satisfied humans, creating a witty reversal of typical children's literature. The book became an immediate success, selling 4,000 copies within three months. Its clever verse and memorable style have drawn comparisons to later works like Dr. Seuss. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27175 ER -