Goops and How to Be Them

by Gelett Burgess

Overview

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! The rhymes and drawings in this hilarious introduction to manners for children still amuse and educate 100 years later, providing lessons valuable today and shedding light on turn-of-the-century American mores.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781557093929
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	06/15/2005
Series:	Applewood Books
Pages:	108
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	4 - 8 Years

About the Author

Frank Gelett Burgess was born in Boston in 1866. After getting a degree from MIT in 1887, he moved to California to teach at U. Cal Berkeley. While there, and later in New York and Paris, he wrote many humorous novels, poems and stories, many of which are still in print, including Goops and How to Be Them, More Goops and How Not to Be Them, and The Purple Cow. Burgess died in 1951 in Carmel, CA.

Read an Excerpt

"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!"