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Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts: The Subversive Folklore of Childhood
Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts The Subversive Folklore of Childhood
Author: Josepha Sherman, T. K. F. Weisskopf
A variety of songs, insults, gruesome jokes, and offensive, bawdy rhymes ranging from bodily functions, death, pregnancy, and school to parents, friends, and "The Life and Deaths of Barney" (including some raunchy anatomical ones) invented by or passed around among children.  This book may take you back to your childhood, not...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780874834444
ISBN-10: 0874834449
Publication Date: 11/1/1995
Pages: 248
Reading Level: Young Adult
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3.9 stars, based on 5 ratings
Publisher: August House Publishers
Book Type: Paperback
Members Wishing: 1
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Ok, this book can be very funny, but adults exercise caution before you hand this over to a 'young adult'. For me, some content was not quite appropriate. While my husband and I laughed, we thought, hm.. not sure that I want my kid reading that. Other stuff is quite appropriate for a young adult and extremely funny.
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This is a compendium of somewhat ribald poems and parts of poems, from our lost and misspent youth of 40+ years ago. There isn't much commentary, which might be OK, but it is interesting that as an elementary school teacher I hear versions of these that I heard 40 years ago, and apparently they have been passed on without any written help, or (I would hope) no help from any adults.


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