This is a very old childhood book of mine! This fictional children's picture book is about a dog named Martha and how she started speaking. It happened because her owner gave her a bowl of alphabet soup to eat. So the letters from the soup went to her brain instead of her stomach! She started to talk too much and it was getting her in trouble. For more: http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/features/marthathetalkingdog/author.html #UCFLAE3414sp17