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  PUT ME IN THE ZOO

  This title was originally catalogued by the Library of Congress as follows: Lopshire, Robert. Put me in the zoo. [New York] Beginner Books: distributed by Random House [1960] 58p. illus. 24 cm. (Beginner books, B-17) I. Title PZ8.3.L862Pu 60-13494

  ISBN: 978-0-394-80017-2

  eISBN: 978-0-375-98686-4

  Copyright © 1960, renewed 1988 by Robert Lopshire. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in New York by Beginner Books, Inc., and simultaneously in Toronto, Canada, by Random House of Canda Limited.

  v3.1

  To Ted, Helen and Phyllis

  Contents

  Title Page

  Copyright

  Dedication

  First Page

  I will go into the zoo.

  I want to see it.

  Yes, I do.

  I would like to

  live this way.

  This is where

  I want to stay.

  Will you keep me

  in the zoo?

  I want to stay

  in here with you.

  We do not want you

  in the zoo.

  Out you go!

  Out! Out with you.

  Why did they

  put me out this way?

  I should be in.

  I want to stay.

  Why should they

  put you in the zoo?

  What good are you?

  What can you do?

  What good am I?

  What can I do?

  Now here is one thing

  I can do.

  Look! Now all his spots

  are blue!

  And now his spots are orange!

  Say!

  He looks very good

  that way.

  Now look at this!

  What do you see?

  Green spots! As green

  as green can be!

  Violet spots!

  Say! You are good!

  Do more! Do more!

  We wish you would.

  I can do more.

  Look! This is new.

  Blue, orange, green,

  and violet, too.

  Oh! They would put me

  in the zoo,

  if they could see

  what I can do.

  I can put spots

  up on this ball.

  And I can put them

  on a wall.

  I can put them

  on a cat.

  And I can put them

  on a hat.

  I can put them

  on the zoo!

  And I can put

  my spots on you!

  Look at this, now!

  One! Two! Three!

  I can put them

  on a tree.

  And now

  when I say “One, two, three...”

  all my spots

  are back on me!

  Look, now!

  Here is one thing more.

  I take my spots.

  I make them four.

  Oh! They would put me

  in the zoo,

  if they could see

  what I can do.

  I take my spots,

  I take them all,

  And I can make them

  very small.

  And now, you see,

  I take them all

  and I can make them

  very tall.

  And when I want

  to have more fun,

  I take my spots

  and make them one.

  Yes, they should put me

  in the zoo.

  The things my spots

  and I can do!

  See! I can put them

  in a box.

  I take them out.

  They look like socks.

  And I can put them

  way up high.

  Up, up they go!

  I make them fly.

  I put them

  high up in the air.

  My spots fly here.

  My spots fly there.

  I call them back, now,

  One! Two! Three!

  Now all my spots

  are back with me.

  Tell me. Tell me, now,

  you two.

  Do you like

  the things I do?

  Tell me. Tell me, now,

  you two.

  Will they put me

  in the zoo?

  We like all

  the things you do.

  We like your spots,

  we like you, too.

  But

  you should not

  be in the zoo.

  No. You should NOT

  be in the zoo.

  With all the things

  that you can do,

  the circus

  is the place

  for you!

  Yes!

  This is where

  I want to be.

  The circus is

  the place for me!

 

 

  Robert Lopshire, Put Me in the Zoo

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