More Goops and How Not to Be Them

By Burgess, Gelett

Book Id: WPLBN0002952771
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File Size: 11.89 MB
Reproduction Date: 2006

Title:	More Goops and How Not to Be Them
Author:	Burgess, Gelett
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Poetry, Children, Comedy
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, More Goops and How Not to Be Them; by Gelett Burgess
Historic Publication Date:	1903
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Burgess, B. G. (1903). More Goops and How Not to Be Them. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

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! (Summary by Mark F. Smith)

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Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Children, Comedy, Poetry