Today’s Poem: Rebecca, Who Slammed Doors for Fun and Perished Miserably

Hilaire Belloc offers for children’s delight his tales of children coming to terrible ends

Harold Gilman, Edwardian Interior, 1907 (Wikimedia Commons)

Appearing in 1907, Cautionary Tales for Children — subtitlted Designed for the Admonition of Children between the Ages of Eight and Fourteen Years — was the contribution of Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) to a golden age of children’s books that ran more or less from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland …