Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book! I never read it as a kid, but Juan did, and he thought it was very funny. Then again, he was a weird kid. According to him, his mother raised him on Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book, plus records by Anna Russell, Tom Lehrer, and Flanders & Swann. Which may explain a few things about him, but anyway. He still refers to Ernie in the ceiling now and then.

Me, I loathed The Giving Tree. It really icked me out.