Do I Have to Say Hello? Aunt Delia's Manners Quiz for Kids and Their Grown-Ups [Hardcover]

Delia Ephron (Author), Edward Koren (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 128 pages
• Publisher: Viking Adult (November 16, 1989)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0670828556
• ISBN-13: 978-0670828555
• Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 7.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #771,893 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great book, April 5, 2000

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Sim2100 (st petersburg, checnya) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Do I Have to Say Hello?: Aunt Delia's Manners Quiz for Kids/Grownups (Hardcover)

This book is one of the funniest which I have ever read. If you have kids, get it for them-they will enjoy it immensely. One of mine lent it to one of their friends at school. She never gave it back! It is funny while incorporating good points about manners. It is a great read, and I strongly advise you to buy it.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is a wonderful book that ought to be back in print, May 8, 1997

By A Customer

This review is from: Do I Have to Say Hello? Aunt Delia's Manners Quiz for Kids and Their Grown-Ups (Hardcover)

Do I Have To Say Hello, by Delia Ephron, is a really great manners book for kids. It is hilariously funny - my 5 year-old son and I were laughing so hard that it was difficult to keep reading - but also very clear about good manners. It's presented as a book-length quiz with multiple choice answers. The wrong answers are obviously wrong, but are quite realistic in showing bad manners. The reader gets the point about what's right, but in a way that is extremely funny, never preachy or santimonious. For example:

"You want another helping of corn.
Do you say, "Please pass the corn, Uncle Jerry"?
Do you say, "Yo, corn"?
Do you bang the table with your knife until Aunt Delia and Uncle Jerry ask what you want?"

The book also makes it obvious that good manners have everything to do with treating other people with kindness and consideration instead of just learning the proper form. For example, there's nothing about which fork to use, but plenty about being civil when you are served food you hate. I have already bought this book four times for various kids, and I am terribly disappointed that it is out of print. Maybe someone from Doubleday will read this review and get the message.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My kids loved it, December 8, 2000

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Deirdre Piazzola (Linthicum, MD USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Do I Have to Say Hello? Aunt Delia's Manners Quiz for Kids and Their Grown-Ups (Hardcover)

Great book- lighthearted way for young people to think about what to do in a social situation. My kids would read it aloud in the carpool and never tired of it.