tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209757345530770778.post7435323773078237602..comments2024-03-27T06:11:09.636+11:00Comments on Reading For Australia: Playing with Words by Meredith CostainReading For Australiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11466154076967874427noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209757345530770778.post-61355292008587502202013-11-06T13:58:52.331+11:002013-11-06T13:58:52.331+11:00What fantastic titles! Timeless! I think young peo...What fantastic titles! Timeless! I think young people today would find them as wonderful as when they were written.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3209757345530770778.post-59575237930212380132013-11-06T09:14:31.572+11:002013-11-06T09:14:31.572+11:00I love poetry too - from nursery rhymes to Dr Seus...I love poetry too - from nursery rhymes to Dr Seuss, to John Keats, GM Hopkins, Judith Wright, TS Eliot and so many more. I love serious poems and funny poems. One of my favourite poems of all time, by the Canadian poet, Earle Birney, is The Bear on the Delhi Road. You can find it here:<br /><br />http://www.library.utoronto.ca/canpoetry/birney/poem4.htm<br /><br />Thank you Meredith for sharing your love of poetry with us and also for introducing me - and other readers who may not have known about Hilaire Belloc - to the Cautionary Tales for Children. They're very funny and worth reading for their titles alone.<br /><br />First published in 1907 and "designed for the admonition of children between the ages of 8 and 14", these verses parody the moralistic cautionary tales which were popular in the 1800s. <br /><br />There are 11 poems in Belloc's Cautionary Tales and the titles include:<br /><br />"Jim who ran away from his nurse and was eaten by a lion";<br />"Henry King who chewed bits of string and was cut off early in Dreadful agonies"; <br />"Algernon who played with a loaded gun and, on missing his sister, was reprimanded by his Father; and<br />"Rebecca who slammed doors for fun and perished Miserably"<br /><br />You can read them all here:<br /><br />http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Cautionary_Tales_for_ChildrenReading For Australiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11466154076967874427noreply@blogger.com