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Don't Do That!
A Child's Guide to Bad Manners, Ridiculous Rules and Inadequate Etiquette

by Barry Louis Polisar

illustrated by David Clark

$14.95, 32 p. color illustrated.

ISBN# 0-938663-20-8




It's Miss Manners for kids--as 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 include: "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."

"Barry Louis Polisar is a one-man symphony of comic irony," writes The Baltimore Sun. "At a time when vast numbers of our kids see school as endless drudgery, Polisar says otherwise. He says, isn't the English language fun?"


Please Note: This title is also available in a Spanish language edition.







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