Goops and How to Be Them: A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants
by Gelett Burgess
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Author: Gelett BurgessEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2005-06-15
ISBN: 155709392X
Number of pages: 108
Publisher: Applewood Books
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Book Review: Are you Goop, or are you Not?... It is Terrible to Be them
Summary: 5 Stars
My volume of "Goops and How to Be Them" is in its thirty-eighth printing in the year of 1928. It comes straight off the shelf in the private school library where I am librarian in the process of weeding the collection and automating the keepers. The Goops is a keeper. (Actually, I've ordered a new copy to replace the old.)
When I first saw how old the book is (but still in usable condition), I thought to remove it until I looked at the product page on Amazon. One, the book is still in print, and two, other reviewers speak fondly of the book! Me, I just met the Goops. How do you do, Goops? The complete subtitle is "A manual of Manners for Polite Infants Inculcating many Juvenile Virtues Both by Precept and Example With Ninety Drawings," written and illustrated by Gelett Burgess.
As Gelett states in the Introduction:
Let me introduce a Race
Void of Beauty and Grace,
Extraordinary Creatures
With a Paucity of Features.
The cover of the new printing shows Goops in color but still with those round, empty-ish heads that can become quite expressive in the hands of the proper illustrator.
Yet you'll learn, if you are Bright,
Politeness from the Impolite.
When you've finished with the Book,...
Ask yourself, upon the Spot,
Are you Goop, or are you Not?
For, although it's Fun to See them
It is Terrible to Be them!
There you have it: a book of manners reverse style. Such topics as Table Manners, Cleanliness, Courtesy, Generosity, Borrowing, Tidiness, Patience, Pets, Clothes, and Quietness are demonstrated, not by what the Goops do, but by what they should do.
Hint about the candy, say you're fond of peppermint;
That's the way to be a Goop--hint, hint, hint!
Or this little poem about Caution in the streets (Reader, be forewarned of danger!)
When you travel in the street,
Are you cautious and discreet?
Do you look about for horses
When your brother crosses?
Try explaining that one to your little ones!
My personal fave:
The Goops are very hard to kill,
So they hang out the Window-sill;
Down the Banisters they slide--
I could do it if I tried;
but when Mother tells me "Don't,"
then, of course I really won't!
Or this one last elegant piece of instruction--
One more rule won't hurt you:
When you practise Virtue,
Do it with a laugh!
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