Uncle Shelby's ABC's, that book so many of us tried to smuggle into the bookbags of younger siblings. Or used as the heart of a Lesson Plan Construction exercise.
Quick digression -- if you have never read this, please go and get the book.
Sample, from admittedly suspect memory, and with apologies to the late Shel Silverstein, his heirs and assigns.
H is for Hole
Let's dig a hole in the back garden
We can Put Daddy's golf clubs in the hole
We can put Mommy's toaster in the hole
Little sister will rat on us, and we'll get in trouble
What else can we put in the hole?
OK, not politically correct. Big Deal. The last time I read it to a bunch of grade 3 and 4 kids, they loved it. Maybe not as much as Tom Lehrer's "Irish Song" but a lot. I have a lot of hope for that particular group of short subversives.
ANd the point of this rawmaesh? Simply that you should go to My First Dictionary and see how well the author is channeling the Spirit of Shel. The Revolution Lives!!!!!
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