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Goops and How to Be Them

Gelett Burgess

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Book Excerpt: 
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INTRODUCTION

Let me introduce a Race

Void of Beauty and of Grace,

Extraordinary Creatures

With a Paucity of Features.

Though their Forms are fashioned ill,

They have Manners stranger still;

For in Rudeness they're Precocious,

They're Atrocious, they're Ferocious!

Yet you'll learn, if you are Bright,

Politeness from the Impolite.

When you've finished with the Book,

At your Conduct take a Look;

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!

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Community Reviews

This turn of the century illustrated book for kids showcases "The Goops," Burgess's round-headed, badly behaved examples of how not to behave. More than anything, it's a cultural relic showcasing the degradation of common word usage (the Introduction page showcases the words paucity, precocious, atr

This is a funny first look at beginning manners for children with rhymes and illustrations easy for them to read (if they are old enough to read for themselves) or for you to read to your children (or someone else's) Written in 1900 by Gelett Burgess. I enjoyed the rhymes and the accompanying pictur

This book taught me how to have the terrible manners I have today, such that my friends at summer camp refused to eat at the same table with me because of the way I held my spoon. Thank god for the Goops. I am going to be the creepy aunt that buys this as a present for babies.

When I was small, I had a book of children’s poems that had two stanzas of Gelett Burgess’s collection about “The Goops”—specifically, the lines about table manners: “The goops they lick their fingers. The goops they lick their knives. They spill their broth on the table cloth. They lead disgusting

The children seemed to enjoy it thoroughly, even though many words were over their heads. I liked some of the poems, but didn't care for the inconsistent 'set' of the collected poems - some were slightly sarcastic as to how to be a Goop (which you don't want) while others were more directly positive

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