Goops and How to Be Them: A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants Inculcating Many Juvenile Virtues Both by Precept and Example, With 90 Drawings (Timeless Classics)

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Summary: I love the goops! Best method for teaching children manners!
Review: As a first grade teacher, there are so many things that we are required to teach our children, that sometimes you just want to pull your hair out! Character Education is one of the most recent obligations of public school education, and there is now a hardy list of curriculums to be reckoned with. The Goops is the best instruction a teacher can use! It is reverse psychology at its best! The children absolutely adore them, but don't want "to be them!" I loved this book as a child, my own little boy adored them, and my first grade students learn from them. The best thing about this book is that creative teachers can utilize these characters in the entire gamut of education, thereby helping our children to internalize the importance of manners in creating a satisfying and happy life. Thanks so much, Mr. Gellett !

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Summary: It's a good book, but there is a better version
Review: Goops and How to Be Them has been around for years. I was researching on the web for my son's 1st birthday... I wanted to get him a special book about growing up. I had remembered a special book from my childhood called Goops, but couldn't find any originals. Then I found a version edited by Barbara Ross, and I found out that she even lives in my hometown. What a joy! Check it out, it costs a little more, but it is well worth an extra 7 or 8 dollars when it comes to our children.

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Summary: Perfect poems for not so perfect children
Review: I remember the Goops from when I was a kid. My mom would read these to us, and now I am reading them to my children.