More Goops and How Not to Be Them
Author: first_name: Frank Gelett
last_name: Burgess
Language: English
Year: 1903

Deep in the heart of every parent is the wish, the desire, to have other adults tell us, in an unsolicited way, just how very polite one’s child is!  This perhaps was even more the case in 1903, when Gelett Burgess produced his second book on the Goops.  With entertaining cartoons - caricatures of misbehaving children - he described many different breaches of tact and good manners.<br /><br />Burgess wrote several books of poetry on the Goops, each poem describing some significant way in which a