Goops and How to Be Them

by Gelett Burgess

Overview

Classic tongue-in-cheek etiquette book for children demonstrates old-fashioned virtues: courtesy, generosity, neatness, more. 90 illus.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9789356152700
Publisher:	Alpha Edition
Publication date:	04/11/2022
Pages:	60
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.14(d)

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.