Details

Subject(s)

• Animals—Juvenile poetry [Browse]
• English language—Alphabet—Juvenile poetry [Browse]
• English language—Alphabet—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Alphabet—Juvenile poetry [Browse]
• Alphabet books—Specimens [Browse]
• Readers (Primary) [Browse]

Series

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood. [More in this series]

Summary note

A set of of comic alphabet rhymes and illustrations of anthropomorphic animals; also interspersed with simple spelling and reading lessons.

Notes

• Title and imprint from front cover.
• Pagination includes endpapers.
• "A is for Apes, / who seem / to be vain, / Though their faces / must surely be called rather plain. / B Bunny and Bell / both / begin / with a B, / And these Bunnies / have Bells, which / they jingle with glee. / C is for Cats: / swell / dandies / are they, / Who think that their / manners and / Clothes are OK."--Page [2] of wrapper.
• Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.

Other title(s)

• Comical pets ABC book
• Comical pets A B C book
• Comical pets ABC

OCLC

905336137

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