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Title details for Do I Have to Say Hello? by Delia Ephron - Available

Do I Have to Say Hello?

Aunt Delia's Manners Quiz for Kids and Their Grown-ups

by Delia Ephron
Carol Kane
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Twenty-five years after its original publication, Do I Have to Say Hello? Aunt Delia’s Manners Quiz for Kids and Their Grown-ups is back, and do we and our kids all need it. In a series of light-hearted multiple choice quizzes, alternate scenarios, and true-or-false questions, Delia Ephron and Edward Koren, the author and illustrator team who brought us the best-selling How to Eat Like a Child, depict a range of possibilities that reflect life as it is as well as life as it ought to be. Covering table manners, car manners, playground manners, school manners, and more, this is a book that is sure to delight (and horrify) adults and children of all ages.             
                
Aunt Delia knows what makes the difference between a pleasant and an excruciating visit to a friend’s house in the company of a young child. She knows the proper order in which the following actions take place: (a) Throw up; (b) Get out of the car; (c) Ask Uncle Jerry to pull over. In short, she is practical and basic: she does not get into fish forks, but she knows what to do with bubble gum. She also deals with such things as kindness, sharing, consideration, generosity, and diplomacy. Delia Ephron’s painfully on-target text is complemented by Edward Koren’s hilarious drawings, which–as ever–present us not as we might wish to appear, but as we really are.

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  • Release date

    November 3, 2015

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9780147523594
      • File size: 46758 KB
      • Duration: 01:37:24

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Carol Kane (who some may recognize as the actress playing the kooky landlady on "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt") is hilarious as Aunt Delia, who gives kids an entertaining manners quiz. With various scenarios followed by true/false or multiple choice questions, Aunt Delia makes kids laugh while illuminating the nuts and bolts underlying gracious human interactions--whether at birthday parties, dinner tables, or in conversation with relatives. Aunt Delia offers the correct choice along with outlandishly rude (but not uncommon) alternatives that are funny but also perceptive. Kane's somewhat scratchy voice is perfect for the part of Aunt Delia; she serves up her droll scenarios with a generous helping of humor that will make them go down smoothly with all generations. J.C.G. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      November 1, 1989
      Acting in loco parentis, Ephron's ``Aunt Delia'' and ``Uncle Jerry'' try to effect behavior modification in their farouche little kin, whom they invite to take a manners quiz. The results appear in New Yorker cartoonist Koren's drawings, as drolly sympathetic as his illustrations for the author's bestsellers, How to Eat Like a Child and Teenage Romance . An expert on the indignities inflicted on adults by beloved children, Ephron raises audible laughs as she makes painfully clear the difference between ways we hope small fry will act and the ways they do. In chapters covering fraught topics such as restaurant manners and proper behavior at the beach, Ephron's multiple-choice responses to crucial etiquette questions run the gamut of acceptable and not-so-social deportment. Everyone involved with children will recognize and enjoy (if ruefully) the trials so humorously presented by writer and artist. 50,000 first printing; first serial to Redbook and the New York Times; BOMC alternate.

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