Dr. Seuss's ABC is a 1963 children's A to Z alphabetical picture book by Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel). It was published as part of the Random House Beginner Books series. It contains several short poems about a variety of characters, and is designed to introduce basic alphabet book concepts to children.
The illustrations beginning with each letter[]
- A: Aunt Annie's alligator
- B: Barber, baby, bubbles, and a bumblebee
- C: Camel on the ceiling
- D: David Donald Doo dreams a dozen donuts and a duck dog
- E: Ear, egg, elephant
- F: Four fluffy feathers on a Fiffer-Feffer-Feff
- G: Goat, girl, goo-goo goggles
- H: Hungry horse, hay, hen in a hat, Hooray! Hooray!
- I: Ichabod is itchy
- J: Jerry Jordan's jelly jar and jam
- K: Kitten, kangaroo, kick a kettle, kite, and a king's kerchoo
- L: Little Lola Lopp, left leg, lazy lion licks a lollipop
- M: Many mumbling mice are making midnight music in the moonlight
- N: Nine new neckties and a nightshirt and a nose
- O: Oscar's only ostrich oiled an orange owl today
- P: Painting pink pajamas, policeman in a pail, Peter Pepper's puppy, and now Papa's in the pail
- Q: The quick queen of Quincy and her quacking quackeroo
- R: Rosy Robin Ross riding on her red rhinoceros
- S: Silly Sammy Slick sipped six sodas and got sick, sick, sick
- T: Ten tired turtles on a tuttle-tuttle tree
- U: Uncle Ubb's umbrella and underwear
- V: Vera Violet Vinn is very, very, very awful on her violin
- W: Willy Waterloo is washing Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo
- X: Nixie Knox, ax, extra fox
- Y: A yawning yellow yak, young Yolanda Yorgensen yelling
- Z: Zizzer-Zazzer-Zuzz
Trivia[]
- This book is released to Beginner Book Video as the first story in Dr. Seuss's ABC and 2 Other Stories.
- This book is released as a Bright & Early Board Book, with some changes and omitted pages.
- "What begins with..." is written for each letter.
- The X page on the board book version has things beginning with X: x-ray and xylophone.
- David Donald Doo, the Girl, the Kite, the King, Lola Lopp, Left Leg, Policeman, Peter Pepper's Puppy, Papa, Willy Waterloo, Nixie Knox, and the Fox are absent.
- Vera's violin is violet instead of brown
- The word "hooray" is cut
- Dr. Seuss originally planned the X page to be about sex, but he found it inappropriate for such beginner readers.
- In the web comic series Fluffernutters, Sarah is terrified of the book because of the Z page.