Description
By: Gelett Burgess (1866-1951)
In “More Goops and How Not to Be Them” by Gelett Burgess, readers are provided with a humorous and insightful guide on how to avoid common behavioral mistakes and faux pas. Through amusing rhymes and illustrations, Burgess offers valuable lessons on manners, etiquette, and social skills.
The book is a quick and enjoyable read, perfect for both children and adults looking to brush up on their manners. Burgess’s witty writing style and charming illustrations make the lessons easy to digest and remember. Readers will find themselves chuckling at the antics of the Goops while also taking away important lessons on how to conduct themselves in a more polite and thoughtful manner.
Overall, “More Goops and How Not to Be Them” is a delightful and entertaining read that offers timeless advice on how to navigate social situations with grace and courtesy. Whether you’re looking to improve your own behavior or simply enjoy a good laugh, this book is sure to entertain and educate.
Book Description:
Deep in the heart of every parent is the wish, the desire, to have other adults tell us, in an unsolicited way, just how very polite one’s child is! This perhaps was even more the case in 1903, when Gelett Burgess produced his second book on the Goops. With entertaining cartoons – cariacatures of misbehaving children – he described many different breaches of tact and good manners.
Burgess wrote several books of poetry on the Goops, each poem describing some significant way in which an unthoughtful or unkind child could offend polite society and often offering the hope that the listener would never behave that way. Ahem! Well, perhaps very few people have succeeded in not acting Goop-like at some point in their lives, but read along with Burgess as he attempts to define, in a humorous fashion, exactly what the differences between “Good” and “Goop” are!
