I saw I was being put on the spot, laughing at the letter "C" where Uncle Shelby was explaining: "C is for the stranger who gives you candy. It was hilariously perverse on an adult level. But when I started reading it aloud to them, I realized the joke was on me.
When I got home I announced to my two boys that I had a surprise, a new book, and we'd read it after dinner and bath time. But I didn't realize exactly 'how' different at that time. I thought it looked interested because it had a matte brown cover, the color of cardboard, with simple line-drawings that attracted my interest. It was squeezed in with all the other picture books on the shelf in the children's section.
I bought this book for my sons at a local bookstore around 1979. This is an amazing book, Uncle Shelby's Abz Book: A Primer for Tender Young Minds (1961) and an amazing event in publishing.
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