Goops and How to Be Them: A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants Inculcating Many Juvenile Virtues

by Gelett Burgess

Overview

Mr. Gelett Burgess in his "Goops and How to be Them" presents a series of very curious drawings and verses. These deal with the manners, or rather lack of manners, of various strange infants known as "Goops," and are intended to impress the value of politeness on children. The verses are uniformly as clever as one might expect, remembering some of Mr. Burgess' work in "The Lark" in San Francisco. The following are a few of the lines:

"The Goops they lick their fingers,
And the Goops they lick their knives;
They spill their broth on the table-cloth,
Oh, they lead disgusting lives!"

Children will probably welcome this book with open arms, and will treasure up the "Goops" with the "Golliwogs" in their hearts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781663516497
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	06/11/2020
Pages:	98
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	6 - 8 Years

About the Author

Gelett Burgess (January 30, 1866 – September 18, 1951) 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 (which these lines happen to be).