Goops and How to Be Them

by Gelett Burgess

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781987074888
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	05/18/2019
Pages:	92
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.19(d)
Age Range:	9 - 12 Years

About the Author

Frank Gelett Burgess was an artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist. An important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s, particularly through his iconoclastic little magazine, The Lark, he is best known as a writer of nonsense verse, such as "The Purple Cow", and for introducing French modern art to the United States in an essay titled The Wild Men of Paris. He was the author of the popular Goops books, and he coined the term blurb.