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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
BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN GOOD, AND BECAUSE YOUR UNCLE SHELBY LOVES YOU TOMORROW YOU CAN STAY HOME Read the first page
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5.0 out of 5 stars
I Love This Book!,
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This review is from: Uncle Shelby'S Abz Book (Paperback)
I read this book over and over from the time I was six years old. (Yes, six. Under my mom's supervision. And, yes, I got the joke.) Who knew dear Uncle Shelby could be so twisted? It's a hilarious read for adults, older children, and mature-for-their-age younger children. If you have a rather dark sense of humor, you'll almost certainly enjoy this book.
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A classic NOT for young children!,
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This review is from: Uncle Shelby'S Abz Book (Paperback)
I have always thought of Shel Silverstein as the American counterpart to England's Roald Dahl--someone who writes ostensibly for children much of the time, but whose worldview is dark, perhaps a little damp, and steeped in a winking cynicism. Silverstein proves my point adeptly in the 1961 classic "Uncle Shelby's ABZ," a loopy uproar of a book that should never, NEVER be given to young children. You will, however, want to get a copy for every adult you're fond of who doesn't already own a copy.As Silverstein explains in the foreword (done here, as throughout the book, in his own handwriting), he has thought and thought about children and as he wasn't blessed with children of his own, he has come up with this "primer" for all children. The book opens with a wee poem: O child learn your ABZ's That ought to give you an idea of what's to come. Silverstein meticulously addresses every letter in the alphabet, descending further and further as he does into a swirling pit of black humor. He starts off, of course, with "A," writing with great jollity about how many green apples he thinks the reader can eat (everything is addressed directly TO the reader, as though the reader is a child, making the text all the more seductive). "E" is a hoot: E is for egg. Silverstein's humor is subversive, to say the least. One page has a coupon, which Silverstein accompanies with the following text: Kids! Clip out this certificate and bring it to your friendly neighborhood grocer and he will give you, absolutely free . . . A REAL LIVE PONY! I have seen adults absolutely dissolve off their chairs with helpless laughter on reading "Uncle Shelby's ABZ." It wickedly plays off every insecurity and worry and doomed hope that any child secretly entertains, and it does so with a ruthlessness that's mighty to behold. This is highly, highly, HIGHLY recommended for any adult.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Hysterically Witty,
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This review is from: Uncle Shelby'S Abz Book (Paperback)
This is by far the funniest book i have ever encountered. i've been reading Shel since i became literate, and consider myself an avid fan. This book, written as if a children's book, is witty, twisted, and extremely amusing. Perfect for anyone who enjoys a sick joke or two. I also reccomend it for a "Coming of Age" book for those neices and nephews you love!
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