Hilaire Belloc -Cautionary Tales for Children audiobook

[morikahjo]

But were the towns-people really so stupid not to see, the smoke billowing up out of the windows and roof??? Sounds like they were sick of her lies and let her burn on purpose!

[morikahjo]

Liar Liar Pants on Fire!

[Aeschylus]

Der Struwwelpeter. Ha ha ha ha ha, I love how the cats put the fire out with their tears! :)

[ArmyPrint]

Yeah, I was gonna say, isn't that Pauline, not Matilda?

[pothead930]

Such a happy ending.

[Bellatrix04]

hahah so funny XD LOVETT!

[liquidsock]

i had a record of these as a child. they were so funny, and i listened to them so often, i can still, 45 years later, recite them verbatim.

[thecrazyacey]

I find it really funny that this story is meant to be promoting kids to tell the truth, when the story itself is bullshit LOL

[barttheanorak]

Belloc admitted that in his introduction to the original book: nd is it True? It is not True. And if it were it wouldn't do, For people such as me and you Who pretty nearly all day long Are doing something rather wrong. Because if things were really so, You would have perished long ago, And I would not have lived to write The noble lines that meet your sight, Nor B.T.B survived to draw The nicest things you ever saw.

[SpokenVerse]

Overdramatised. Belloc is aloof and dispassionate