A review by librarianryan
Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts: The Subversive Folklore of Childhood by Josepha Sherman, T.K.F. Weisskopf

emotional funny hopeful informative lighthearted reflective medium-paced

4.0

 

It is so hard to wrap my heard around this being a banned book.  The authors collected children’s sing songs and rhymes, and their variations across the US, put them in a book.  They talk about how and why these songs vary the meaning behind some of them.  It is full American childhood folklore.  I grew up with my dad singing these songs.  They always made me smile but I never knew how much of a cultural phenomenon they were.  They are largely gone today.  Most children do not know these, and they are not passed down like they were.  I love that not only do I have the memory of these rhymes and singsongs, but that someone took the time to collect them and write about them before they are gone forever.  So, pull up a bucket of mutilated monkey meat, and enjoy this history of gross songs from childhood.