Don't Do That!: A Child's Guide to Bad Manners, Ridiculous Rules, and Inadequate Etiquette (Rainbow Morning Music Picture Books)

This funny and fun loving guide to misbehaving properly is perfect for introducing kids to manners. Topics include: How to Play with your Food, Family Trips and Riding in the Car, and many more. Kids get the ideas and enlightened adults will see right through them to the warm-hearted sense underneath. School Library Journal K-Gr 4-This new edition of an old favorite (Rainbow Morning Music, 1986), now with new full-page, full-color illustrations, is as irreverent and irrepressibly funny as ever. Children will laugh because they can recognize themselves and their thoughts in the true-life situations from how to eat at the table to how to pick your nose in public. Adults will smile and hopefully remember what it was like to be a child. And perhaps all readers will learn not to take themselves too seriously.-Pamela K. Bomboy, Chesterfield County Public Schools, VA Its Miss Manners for kidsas only Barry Louis Polisar could write it!! This funny and fun loving guide to misbehaving properly is perfect for introducing kids to manners because the examples are totally absurd. Topics How to Play with your Food, Family Trips and Riding in the Car and much more. Kids get the ideas and enlightened adults will see right through them to the warm-hearted sense underneath. Already a classic! A witty and hilarious book by the author whom Tom Lehrer described as a delightfully subversive antidote to Mr. Rogers. A humorous introduction to good manners and behavior in relation to home and school activities. Includes such topics as "Appropriate Ways to Torture Your Sister or Brother," "Rules for Scaring Your Grandparents," "Proper Ways to Play With Your Food," and "Taking Trips in the Car."