Burgess returns with another delightful guide on manners, focusing on the misadventures of the Goops. This manual humorously addresses etiquette and behavior, providing lessons for children on how to be polite. A whimsical guide to good manners for the young and young at heart. An entertaining yet educational look at the importance of proper behavior.
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!
Excerpt from More Goops and How Not to Be Them: A Manual of Manners for Impolite Infants Depicting the Characteristics of Many Naughty and Thoughtless Children, With Instructive Illustrations So when you chance to take a look At all the maxims in the book, You '11 see that most of them are true, I found them out, and so will you, For if you are as goop derided. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
The Goops books, originally published between 1900 and 1950, were created by the artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist Gelett Burgess. The characters debuted, conceptually, in the illustrations of Burgess' publication The Lark, in the late 19th century. The Goops also appeared in panels in the popular monthly children's publication St. Nicholas, as early as 1898. The Goops series is among his most famous works.The Goops, they lick their fingers, and the Goops, they lick their knives;They spill their broth on the tablecloth, Oh, they lead disgusting lives!Since the publication of the original Goops book, Goops and How to Be Them, in 1900, the series has come to be seen as the quintessential series on teaching children the importance of manners and polite behavior.When you are playing with the girls, you must not pull their pretty curls;if you are gentle when you play, you will be glad of it some day!Though widely circulated during the height of Burgess' popularity, some of the Goops books have become difficult to find. Goops and How to Be Them and More Goops and How Not to Be Them are still widely available. Out-of-print titles such as Goops Encyclopedia and Blue Goops and Red may be found in rare book rooms and antiquarian bookstores.In addition to the books, Burgess created the syndicated comic strip Goops in 1924 and worked on it through its end in 1925.Elizabeth Metz Butterfield of Jamestown N.Y. set a number of Burgess' Goop poems to music. They were published under the name The Goop Songb
The Goops and How to Be Them created by the artist, poet, art critic, author, and humorist Gelett Burgess. The originals debuted, conceptually, in the pictures of Burgess' publication The Lark. The Directory also appeared in panels in the traditional monthly children's magazine St. Nicholas. The Goop Directory is one of his most famous works. The Goops, they lick their fingers, They spill their broth on the tablecloth, They lead disgusting lives! The Goops, they lick their knives; The Goop Directory has become the quintessential series on training children in the importance of polite behavior and manners. When you are playing with girls, you must not pull their lovely curls; if you are considerate when you play, you will be glad you did some time! Though widely distributed during the height of Burgess' fashionableness, some of the manners and has become difficult to find.
