A Treasury of Goops: Timeless Manners for Every Generation

by Gelett Burgess, Barbara Ross (Introduction), Diana Camille (Illustrator)

Children need to be loved Children with poor manners and impolite behavior are tolerated but not always welcomed with open arms. For over a century manners and polite behavior as set out in A Treasury of Goops have been a source of entertainment; delightfully teaching children of all ages. Barbara Ross & Nicholas Beatty, who reintroduced the Goops to the world, reveal that polite behavior and manners can make a positive difference in childrens lives.
Based on, Goops and how to be them, Gelett Burgess

40 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2004

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."

Reviews

[Kelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

The original illustrations are better imo.