by Belloc · Cluster: Comic Verse · Childhood · Satire
Abstract
A sequel volume of Belloc’s comic cautionary verse for children (illustrated by B.T.B.), presenting absurd rhymed lessons about exotic and improbable animals — the Python, the Scorpion, the Microbe, the Frozen Mammoth and others. The mock-didactic tone parodies earnest natural-history primers for the young.
Capitoli / Chapters
- DEDICATION.
- INTRODUCTION
- The Python
- The Welsh Mutton
- The Porcupine
- The Scorpion
- The Crocodile
- The Vulture
- The Bison
- The Viper
- The Llama
- The Chamois
- The Frozen Mammoth
- The Microbe
Connections
Forms & Genres: Comic Verse Song, Parody Themes & Concepts: Nonsense, Childhood And Growth, Satire of Society Motifs: Animals, Insects Archetypes: Child Topoi: World Upside Down