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10 best books like Cautionary Tales for Children (Hilaire Belloc): Imagine: How Creativity Works, What It Is, Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, Amphigorey, The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss, Amphigorey Too, Gnomes, Une Semaine de Bonté, The World of Edward Gorey

Imagine: How Creativity Works
AuthorJonah Lehrer
ISBN0547386079
Did you know that the most creative companies have centralized bathrooms? That brainstorming meetings are a terrible idea? That the color blue can help you double your creative output?

From the New York Times best-selling author of How We Decide comes a sparkling and revelatory look at the...
What It Is
AuthorLynda Barry
ISBN1897299354
How do objects summon memories? What do real images feel like? For decades, these types of questions have permeated the pages of Lynda Barry’s compositions, with words attracting pictures and conjuring places through a pen that first and foremost keeps on moving. What It Is demonstrates a tried-and-true...
Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book
AuthorTerry Jones
ISBN1857933362
Based on the series of turn-of-the-century photos of the supposed “Cottingley Fairies”, Lady Cottington’s Pressed Fairy Book is definitely not a children’s book, but rather a morbid fantasy told through journal entries about a horrid imp of a girl who makes a hobby of crushing fairies in...
The Gashlycrumb Tinies
AuthorEdward Gorey
ISBN0747541604
The Gashlycrumb Tinies: or, After the Outing is an abecedarian book written by Edward Gorey that was first published in 1963. Gorey tells the tale of 26 children (each representing a letter of the alphabet) and their untimely deaths in rhyming dactylic couplets, accompanied by the author's distinctive...
Amphigorey
AuthorEdward Gorey
ISBN0399504338
The title of this deliciously creepy collection of Gorey's work stems from the word amphigory, meaning a nonsense verse or composition. As always, Gorey's painstakingly cross-hatched pen and ink drawings are perfectly suited to his oddball verse and prose. The first book of 15, "The Unstrung Harp,"...
The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss
AuthorDr. Seuss
ISBN0679434488
These fabulous, whimsical paintings, created for his own pleasure and never shown to the public, show Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss) in a whole new light. Depicting outlandish creatures in otherworldly settings, the paintings use a dazzling rainbow of hues not seen in the primary-color palette of his...
Amphigorey Too
AuthorEdward Gorey
ISBN0399504206
contains The Beastly Baby, The Nursery Frieze, The Pious Infant, The Evil Garden, The Inanimate Tragedy, The Gilded Bat, The Iron Tonic, The Osbick Bird, The Chinese Obelisks (bis), The Deranged Cousins, The Eleventh Episode, [The Untitled Book], The Lavender Leotard, The Disrespectful Summons,...
Gnomes
AuthorRien Poortvliet
ISBN0810909650
Abrams launched Gnomes into the hearts of Americans in 1977 and quickly racked up astrognomic sales in bookstores across the country, ultimately achieving a 62-week run on the New York Times best-seller list. Come join in the 20th-anniversary fun as gnomania strikes again!Did you know that gnome...
Une Semaine de Bonté
AuthorMax Ernst
ISBN0486232522
“One of the clandestine classics of our century.” —The New York Times

This is the legendary collage masterpieces of Max Ernst (b. 1891), one of the leading figures of the surrealistic movement and among the most original artists of the 20th century. From old catalog and pulp novel illustrations,...
The World of Edward Gorey
AuthorClifford Ross
ISBN0810990830
Though I've been attracted to Gorey's art for some time now, I couldn't have told you before I read this book why I was. According to the interview here, Gorey adores Dickens (especially his lesser-read works) and, according to interpretation offered in the essay, in his art he both celebrates and parodies...
The Twelve Terrors of Christmas
AuthorJohn Updike
ISBN0764937103
Aaaaaa! So much to fear!

From the tree -


At night, you can hear it rustling and slurping water out of the bucket.

To the big man himself -


If he's such a big shot, why is he drawing unemployment for eleven months of the year?

Not to mention those sinister...
Gris Grimly's Wicked Nursery Rhymes I
AuthorGris Grimly
ISBN0972938877
Grade level: 2nd-4th

Summary: Nursery Rhymes that are a little twisted with kid friendly spooky and gross illustrations.

Review: This book is one I would only really recommend for the more mature students in a class. It does have somethings that I guess might be considered scary for...
Creepy Susie and 13 Other Tragic Tales for Troubled Children
AuthorAngus Oblong
ISBN0345433009
Creepy Susie. Mary Had a Little Chainsaw. Milo's Disorder. Rosie's Crazy Mother. The Siamese Quadruplets. Emily Amputee.

Your mother never told you these stories.

She didn't want to scare you.

But Angus Oblong is not your mother.

If Edgar Allan Poe and David Lynch...
The Epiplectic Bicycle
AuthorEdward Gorey
ISBN0747541655
I do love Edward Gorey and this is a great little oddity. It appears no one dies during this story, but do they really not die? The end leaves us wondering what happened to the kids and what is going on?? This is about 2 kids and a bicycle having adventures. It did make me laugh. There are not that many frames,...
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