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A Is for Amos

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Text copyright © 1999 by Deborah Chandra
Illustrations copyright 1999 by Keiko Narahashi
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e-ISBN 1-58824-319-2
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chandra, Deborah.
A is for Amos / Deborah Chandra : pictures by Keiko Narahashi. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
Summary: A rider on Amos goes around the farm and back home to the
barn nding all the letters of the alphabet.
ISBN 0-374-30001-1
[1. Horses—Fiction. 2. Farm life—Fiction. 3. Domestic animals—Fiction.
4. Alphabet.] I. Narahashi, Keiko, ill. II. Title.
PZ7.C3596545Aae 1999 [E]—dc21
Deborah Chandra
Pictures by Keiko Narahashi
For Taylor, Lauren, and Natalie
—D.C.

For Joy
—K.N.
Clippety c p clippet y clap
la

A is for Amos and


I’m on his back
B for the bumpity b ridge
we cross

c for the
clippety clop of his trot
D for dust

E for each
harumpety thump
of his heavy hoofbeat
F for f armer, wave hello
g o !
G for g allop—off w e
H for high fence

I for I’m g t o
i n
J f or go
jump this
time
K for k ids
kicking their heels
L for l amb
alone in the eld
Slo
p p i t y cloppety thumpety thud

Past pigs
in a puddle

M is for mud
N for nibbling clover
now

No, not thistles,

O for ow!

P for prick!

Giddy-up, Amos, and

Q for quick
R for rain and
thunder’s rumble

S for stream with its


swish and bubble
T for time to trot
back home
th e h i ll , then
u p d ow
r
fo
p
n
U
V for weather vane
that’s twirling
W for
wild wind
whirling
lippety
C cla p at last in the barn

X for extra-dry
and warm
Cows’ soft mooing, donkey braying
Y for yellow hay to lie in
en it’s clo y
h p-pet- t-
T y lop-pe

And Z —for lazy Amos—


clip- t-y clops
pe

stops.

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