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Etiquette Books for Children


  • Aliki
    Manners
    Greenwillow, 1990
  • Armstrong, Jennifer
    That Terrible Baby
    Tambourine, 1994
  • Bottner, Barbara
    Bootsie Barker Bites
    Putnam, 1992
  • Brown, Marc Tolon
    D.W.’s Guide to Perfect Manners
    Little, Brown, 2006
  • Buehner, Caralyn
    It’s a Spoon, Not a Shovel
    Dial, 1995
  • Burgess, Gelett
    Goops and How to be Them: A Manual of Manners for Polite Infants Inculcating Many Juvenile Virtues Both by Precept and Example
    MAIN Children’s Historical Collection
  • Burgess, Gelett
    More Goops and How Not to be Them: A Manual of Manners for Impolite Infants, Depicting the Characteristics of Many Naughty and Thoughtless Children, with Instructive Illustrations
    MAIN Children's Historical Collection
  • Gantos, Jack
    Rotten Ralph
    Houghton Mifflin, 1976
  • Giblin, James
    From Hand to Mouth, Or, How We Invented Knives, Forks, Spoons, and Chopsticks & the Table Manners To Go With Them
    Crowell, 1987
  • Goldberg, Whoopi
    Whoopi’s Big Book of Manners
    Jump at the Sun/Hyperion, 2006
  • Gosney, Joy.
    Naughty Parents
    Millbrook, 2000
  • Hazen, Barbara Shook
    Hello Gnu, How Do You Do?: A Beginning Guide to Positively Polite Behavior
    Doubleday, 1990
  • Hoban, Russell
    A Birthday for Frances
    HarperCollins, 1968
  • Joslin, Sesyle
    What Do You Say, Dear?
    Harper & Row, 1958
  • Keller, Laurie
    Do Unto Otters: A Book About Manners
    Holt, 2007
  • MacDonald, Betty
    Hello, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
    Lippincott, 1957
  • Post, Peggy
    Emily Post’s The Guide to Good Manners for Kids
    HarperCollins, 2004
  • Radunsky, Vladimir
    Table Manners: The Edifying Story of Two Friends Whose Discovery of Good Manners Promises Them a Glorious Future
    Candlewick, 2001
  • Sendak, Maurice
    Where the Wild Things Are
    Harper & Row, 1963
  • Shannon, David
    No, David!
    Blue Sky/Scholastic, 1998
  • Whybrow, Ian
    Little Wolf ’s Book Of Badness
    Carolrhoda, 1995
  • Willems, Mo
    Time to Say "Please"!
    Hyperion, 2005

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