Uncle Shelby's Abz Book A Primer for Tender Young Minds

Chapter 1 A is for appleSee the nice green apple.M-M-M-M-Good.How many nice green apples canyoueat?Make a circle around the number of nice green little apples you ate today.1 2 3 4 7 12 26 38 57 83 91 116B is for babySee the babyThe baby is fatThe baby is pinkThe baby can cryThe baby can laughSee the baby playPlay, baby, play.Pretty, pretty, baby.Mommy loves the baby more than she loves you.Z is for zooLet's go to the zooSee all the animals!The animals are locked inside the cages.Poor animals!Who will let them out?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.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.See the hippopotimus in the zooWhew! Copyright copy; 1961 by Shel SilversteinSilverstein, Shel is the author of 'Uncle Shelby's Abz Book A Primer for Tender Young Minds', published 1985 under ISBN 9780671211486 and ISBN 067121148X.