More Goops and How Not to Be Them
Gelesen von Mark F. Smith
Frank Gelett Burgess
(4,664 Sterne; 73 Bewertungen)
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.
Burgess wrote several books of poetry on the Goops, each poem describing some significant way in which an unthoughtful or unkind child could offend polite society and often offering the hope that the listener would never behave that way. Ahem! Well, perhaps very few people have succeeded in not acting Goop-like at some point in their lives, but read along with Burgess as he attempts to define, in a humorous fashion, exactly what the differences between “Good” and “Goop” are!
(Summary by Mark F. Smith) (0 hr 24 min)
Chapters
Bewertungen
Goops
Cingwitte
(5 Sterne)
An amusing series of very short poems on childhood behavior.
good
Milo
(5 Sterne)
I really like it. sick furniture was the funniest one
not my thing
Lisa k of pa
(5 Sterne)
I love Mark Smith’s reading but this poetry is really not my thing.
Fun. I think I’m a Goop. I think we’re all Goops.
storyteller
(5 Sterne)
I Love The Book
(5 Sterne)
I must be a goop if that's all true!
Great Simple Poems for young and old
Sherry Woomert
(5 Sterne)
A great book for children & parents!
(5 Sterne)
Christine
(5 Sterne)
Not a poetry person, but after having The Goops in my childhood library, read by my parents, it’s delightful to hear them again in my mid-sixties. As usual, well read!! Thank you, enjoyed the listen, as usual!