Books with author Gelett Burgess

The Goops they lick their fingers,/And the Goops they lick their knives, /They spill their broth on the tablecloth -/Oh, they lead disgusting lives! The rhymes and drawings in this hilarious introduction to manners for children still amuse and educate 100 years later, providing lessons valuable today and shedding light on turn-of-the-century American mores.

[This book is generously sized at 81/2 x 11.] Mr. Gelett Burgess in his ""Goops and How to be Them"" presents a series of very curious drawings and verses. These deal with the manners, or rather lack of manners, of various strange infants known as ""Goops,"" and are intended to impress the value of politeness on children. The verses are uniformly as clever as one might expect, remembering some of Mr. Burgess' work in ""The Lark"" in San Francisco. The following are a few of the lines: ""The Goops they lick their fingers, And the Goops they lick their knives; They spill their broth on the table-cloth, Oh, they lead disgusting lives!"" Children will probably welcome this book with open arms, and will treasure up the "Goops" with the "Golliwogs" in their hearts.

The Goops books, originally published between 1900 and 1950, were created by the artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist Gelett Burgess. The characters debuted, conceptually, in the illustrations of Burgess' publication The Lark, in the late 19th century. The Goops also appeared in panels in the popular monthly children's publication St. Nicholas, as early as 1898. The Goops series is among his most famous works.

In the year 1877 the Siskiyou House, originally a third-class hotel patronized chiefly by mining men, had fallen into such disrepute that it was scarcely more than a cheap tenement. Its office was now frankly a bar-room; beside it, a narrow hallway plunged into the shabby, shadowy interior; here a steep stairway rose. Above were disconsolate rooms known to the police of San Francisco as the occasional resort of counterfeiters, confidence workers and lesser knaves; to the neighborhood the Siskiyou Hotel had a local reputation as being the home of Madam Grant, who occupied two rooms on the second floor.Her rooms were slovenly and squalid—almost barbarous in the extremity of their neglect. Upon the floor was a matted carpet of dirt and rubbish inches deep, piled higher at the corners, uneven with lumps of refuse, bizarre with scraps of paper, cloth and tangled strings.

Frank Gelett Burgess was an author humorist, poet, and artist. He was the author of the popular Goops books (manners and Etiquette for children and teenagers), nonsense verse "The Purple Cow". This eBook contains Burgess's complete works (9 books, Children’s Books, Humorous Poems, Psychological & War Fiction and Essay in one volume) with more than 250 high quality illustrations. This eBook is carefully formatted for eBook readers, easy to read, easy to navigate with fully functional table of contents. Included Works:1. The Goop Directory Of Juvenile Offenders Famous For Their Misdeeds And Serving As A Salutary Example For All Virtuous Children (Manners & Etiquette for children and teenagers)2. More Goops And How Not To Be Them (Manners & Etiquette for children and teenagers)3. Goops And How To Be Them (Manners & Etiquette for children and teenagers)4. The Romance Of The Commonplace (Essay)5. The Purple Cow (Nonsense verse)6. The Heart Line: A Drama Of San Francisco (Fiction)7. Are You A Bromide? (Wit and Humor)8. The White Cat (Psychological)9. War The Creator (World War I)

The Goops books, originally published between 1900 and 1950, were created by the artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist, Gelett Burgess. The Goops series is among his most famous works. For example, “The Goops they lick their fingers, and the Goops they lick their knives; They spill their broth on the tablecloth, Oh, they lead disgusting lives!” This book has come to be seen as the quintessential book on teaching children the importance of manners and polite behavior. For example, “When you are playing with the girls, you must not pull their pretty curls; if you are gentle when you play, you will be glad of it some day!” It is a pleasure to publish this new, high quality, and affordable edition of this timeless book.