Goops and How to Be Them: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Goops and How to Be Them, credited to Frank Gelett Burgess, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of Goops and How to Be Them by Frank Gelett Burgess. Read in English by LittlePeanut Let me introduce a Race Void of Beauty and of Grace, Extraordinary Creatures With a Paucity of Features. Though their Forms are fashioned ill, They have Manners stranger still; For in Rudeness they're Precocious, They're Atrocious, they're Ferocious! Yet you'll learn, if you are Bright, Politeness from the Impolite. When you've finished with the 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! - Summary by Gelett Burgess

Recording facts

• Recording title: Goops and How to Be Them
• Author credits: Frank Gelett Burgess
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 4
• Listed recording duration: 19:23

Catalogue topics

• manners
• goop
• children poetry

Track guide

1. 01 - Introduction, Table Manners—I, Table Manners—II, Cleanliness, Neatness, Courtesy, Generosity, Consideration, Miss Manners, Borrowing, Memory — 5:17
2. 02 - Books, Honesty, "Why?", Bed-Time, Modesty, Disfiguration, Bravery, Tidiness, Patience Fortitude, George Adolphus — 4:30
3. 03 - Politeness, Gentleness, Hospitality, Pets, Remember, Curiosity, Willy, Clothes, Helpfulness, Quietness, Order — 4:35
4. 04 - Teasing, Interruption, Cry-Baby, Caution, Tardiness, Obedience, Church Headaches, Perseverance, Doll-Time, Combing and Curling, Cheerfulness — 5:01

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