2009/40 pgs
About the Book: A family of young children get upset and annoyed when their mother purchases Emily Post's etiquette book and expects them to behave according to her rules. The children devise a plan to go back to the way things used to be!
Sarah Teenlibrarian Says: This book was very funny and lots of fun and would be great for preschool on up, especially those young readers who are having manners repeated to them over and over!
The books main character is frustrated by the number of rules that have come because of the Emily Post book and life is not fun anymore! They can't be dirty, they have to be polite, they can't have elbows on the table-what fun is that? So the children start turning the manners and etiquette game onto their mother. They tell her Emily Post would not approve of her not shiny silver and devise ways to take the rules of etiquette to new extremes. Of course, this all results in a big disaster and lots of humor!
The illustrations are detailed and colorful. Emily Post used characters to help tell her stories of manners and these ghostly-like characters appear next to the children teaching them to mind their manners. Some knowledge of Emily Post might be helpful when reading this book, but for kids who are learning about etiquette, it's sure to be full of laughs!
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