Chapter 1 A is for apple See the nice green apple. M-M-M-M-Good. How many nice green apples can you eat? Make a circle around the number of nice green little apples you ate today. 1 2 3 4 7 12 26 38 57 83 91 116 B is for baby See the baby The baby is fat The baby is pink The baby can cry The baby can laugh See the baby play Play, baby, play. Pretty, pretty, baby. Mommy loves the baby more than she loves you. Z is for zoo Let's go to the zoo See 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 zoo Whew! Copyright © 1961 by Shel Silverstein Excerpted from Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book: A Primer for Tender Young Minds by Shel Silverstein All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
