And How To Be Them



A Manual of Manners
for Polite Children

by Gelett Burgess
reintroduced by Barbara Ross

 

Introduction Let me introduce a race Void of beauty and of grace, Extraordinary creatures With many undesirable features. Though their actions show strong will, They have manners stranger still, For in rudeness they're precocious, They're atrocious, they're ferocious! Yet you will learn, if you are bright, Politeness from the impolite. When you've finished with this 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!

 

The Audio version of Goops is read by Pam Atherton
To hear a sample of the Goops, click here.

 

Now you and your family can enjoy the timeless story of the Goops, both in book and audio form. To purchase a copy of the book or the tape, click here.

 

Barbara Ross......."In 1885, my grandmother, a proper teen, moved from Boston to Montana in a covered wagon. After completing her education, she became a school teacher in a small one-room schoolhouse, met a local cattle rancher and married.

He built a log house for their home where they raised six children, my father being his first son, born in 1901. Goops was a large part of my father's young life as long as he could remember. To him, it represented happy times.

Soon I was enjoying Goops at my grandmother's house. When my son was born, Goops arrived in my house for his enjoyment. Goops became so soiled and worn, due to generations of loving hands, that when my grandson was born I felt the need to have Goops restored, to be shared by all of his generation, too.