Georgie Porgie, Puddin’ and Pie

Who Would Kiss This Character? Hygiene Would Help

This contemporary rhyme about Dirty Georgie shifts the focus from his harassment of girls to his personal hygiene, and this illustration certainly confirms this His is pictured in the lower right corner, dressed in a green striped v-neck sweater with a hole in the sleeve, a white shirt that hangs out unevenly beneath the sweater, and beat-up jeans. He seems to be picking his nose. Two other boys are pictured in the background climbing over the brown wooden fence. In the center, two little girls seem to be moving away from Georgie, not crying or in fear but with repulsion. Georgie, however, does not seem to be aware of anyone else's presence; he seems isolated and alone. He is even breaking the frame of the image, seeming to step out of the picture away from the others. According to the poem, he is dirty, smelly, and monster-like. The girls are apparently moving away from his appearance and his smell, not his advances. Note the urban setting and the defiant message painted on the fence.