Do I Have to Say Hello? Aunt Delia's Manners Quiz for Kids and Their Grownups

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.

December 1, 2015
Grades 4-8 The beloved author-and-illustrator team of Ephron and Koren offer up a newly updated version of their relatable handbook on decorum. The original, first published in 1989, was a best-selling classic, and this edition has been changed to reflect more modern social graces and pop-culture references. As before, Ephron uses a quiz-style format, asking multiple-choice questions about proper behavior with clearly wrong and pointedly funny responses. These quizzes run the gamut of topics from table manners to the correct way to act in class. Koren's illustrations are essential to the text, driving home the humorous confusion that social situations can sometimes cause. At its core, the book simply makes the case for putting other people's comfort before one's own, which is the crux of courtesy. It continues to be an excellent companion to Ephron and Koren's How to Eat like a Child (1978), with the breadth of scope making this a great refresher in manners for even the most polite children and their grown-ups.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)