Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book: A Primer for Tender Young Minds Paperback - 1985

Excerpt

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<FONT SIZE="1"><B>Chapter 1</B></FONT>
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A is for apple
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See the nice green apple.<BR>
M-M-M-M-Good.<BR>
How many nice green apples can <I>you</I> eat?<BR>
Make a circle around the number of nice green little apples you ate today.<BR>
1 2 3 4 7 12 26 38 57 83 91 116
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B is for baby
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See the baby<BR>
The baby is fat<BR>
The baby is pink<BR>
The baby can cry<BR>
The baby can laugh<BR>
See the baby play<BR>
Play, baby, play.<BR>
Pretty, pretty, baby.<BR>
Mommy loves the baby more than she loves you.
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Z is for zoo
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Let's go to the zoo<BR>
See all the animals!<BR>
The animals are locked inside the cages.<BR>
Poor animals!<BR>
Who will let them out???
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See the elephant in the zoo. Give the nice elephant some peanut shells with pepper inside. That will be a good joke on him. Ha. Ha. Ha Ha. The elephant is mad but don't worry -- By tomorrow the elephant will have forgotten all about it.
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Poor hippopotomus. The hippopotumos has a bone stuck in his throat and can't get it out. Poor hipopothomus the hipopottomos has no fingers like you do. Poor hipotopomus. Say, maybe he is not a real hiptopomos after all. Maybe he is really a royal prince that has been turned into a hipopotomos by a wicked witch and when some person takes the bone out of his throat the spell will be broken and he will turn back into a prince again and give whoever did it a million dollars in gold and a horse and a castle.
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See the hippopotimus in the zoo
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Whew!
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<FONT SIZE="1">Copyright &copy; 1961 by Shel Silverstein</FONT>