Landale's Cautionary Tales: Comic Verse for the 21st Century

by JamesLandale (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2006

  $5.41

  Meet Gloria, a young shopaholic who learns the value of money the hard way (Moral: If you shop until you drop / One day the trust fund will stop ); or Jonathan, who picks more than his nose (Moral: Orificial exploration / Is but good in moderation ). In the tradition of Hilaire Belloc, James Landale presents a gallery of awful children doing beastly, but very modern things. The perils of video games, text messaging and retail therapy are all laid before the reader, with appropriately unsettling illustrations.