Description: "A humorous alphabet book for adults, teaching ABC lessons parents would never want their children to learn, such as I is for ink (which rhymes with drink) and K is for kidnapper (who has a lollipop and a keen car)."--
Brief description:
Shel Silverstein 's incomparable career as a bestselling children's book author and illustrator began with Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back. He is also the creator of picture books including A Giraffe and a Half, Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?, The Missing Piece, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, and the perennial favorite The Giving Tree, as well as classic poetry collections such as Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Every Thing On It, Don't Bump the Glump!, and Runny Babbit.
Review Quotes:
"Delightful and...zany, Shel Silverstein is a gifted cartoonist and an equally gifted writer." - Chicago Daily Tribune (October 8, 1961)
"The very funny 'Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book' takes sides with the children."
- Philadelphia Daily News (January 17, 1985)
"One of the best antidotes we know to too many preschoolers in the family and a too-serious approach to child-rearing is Shel Silverstein's Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book. It's very, very funny." - Pittsburgh Post Gazette (August, 20 1962)
"You will be chuckling over Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book." - New York Times (Sept 24, 1961)