Roz Chast, a cartoonist for The New Yorker, and Steve Martin teamed up to put together a children’s alphabet book that, from the sounds of their interview this morning on NPR’s Morning Edition, should be a good time for parents as well as children.

“The Alphabet from A to Y with Bonus Letter Z” is a book of rhyming couplets–one for each letter of course–written by Martin and playfully illustrated by Chast. M, for example, features a crazed-looking floating fat kid with the couplet “Maniacal Marvin munched many a macaroon, Making his middle a mini hot air balloon.”

You can read more of the couplets, including a couple that didn’t make it in, see illustrations and listen to the interview here.