Our book is a modern collection of humorous cautionary stories, offering a new approach to the classic genre in the vein of Dr Heinrich Hoffman’s Der Struwwelpeter and Hilaire Belloc’s Cautionary Tales For Children.
We are raising funds to self-publish this children's book with Troubador Publishing.
About the book...
Written as poems, the stories detail the lives of a collection of children who meet dark endings as a result of their mean, foolish, or naughty ways. From the girl whose tongue is chopped off by the propeller man for her lies to the boy whose messy room turns against him to the child who turns into the chair he sits watching TV in, the stories are cautions to the modern child for indulging in ill-behaviours.
Each story is accompanied by a different illustration to visualise the dastardly ends of each child. The octopus snatching the girl who wee’d in the swimming pool or the boy being eaten by a shark after swimming out too far, are imprints that make sure the stories live in the memory long after they have been read.
The collection is aimed at older children but adults would also enjoy this book, in the same way that many adults enjoy the darker children’s tales of Roald Dahl or the works of Edward Gorey.
About us...
This is a British-Peruvian collaboration between three creatives – written by Lizzie Shannon-Little and Gerard Lewis, based in Oxfordshire in the UK – and illustrated by Alexandra Ricketts, who lives in Lima in Peru.
The collection of stories...
- The Child Who Lied or The Tale of the Propeller Man
- The Child Who Talked Relentlessly
- The Child Who Held in His Wind and Suffered For It
- The Child Who Watched Too Much TV
- The Child Who Swam Too Far
- The Child Who Sun-bathed Too Long
- The Child Who Wee'd in the Swimming Pool
- The Child Who Put His Fingers in an Electrical Socket
- The Child Who Wouldn’t Tidy His Room
- The Child Who Ripped Pages Out of Books
Want to read these tantilising stories? Support us in our ambition to self-publish this work! Thank you.