
School Library Journal said, “Silverstein has an excellent sense of rhythm and rhyme and a good ear for alliteration and assonance that make these poems a pleasure to read aloud.”

Shel Silverstein’s masterful collection of poems and drawings is one of Parent & Child magazine's 100 Greatest Books for Kids. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters are auctioned off, and crocodiles go to the dentist. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. In Where the Sidewalk Ends, you’ll meet a boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale. This book features twelve poems that were not in the original edition. Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Where the Sidewalk Ends, the classic poetry collection that is both outrageously funny and profound. He was also an accomplished playwright, including the 1981 hit, "The Lady or the Tiger Show." His latest collection, and his last book to be published before he died in 1999, was Falling Up (1996).Where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein’s world begins. In 1984, Silverstein won a Grammy Award for Best Children's Album for Where the Sidewalk Ends - "recited, sung and shouted" by the author. He also learned to play the guitar and to write songs, including "A Boy Named Sue" for Johnny Cash and "The Cover of the Rolling Stone" sung by Dr. He grew up in Chicago and created his first cartoons for the adult readers of Pacific Stars and Stripes, when he was a G.I. His first collection of poems and drawings, Where the Sidewalk Ends, appeared in 1974, and his second, A Light in the Attic, in 1981.

Shel returned to humour that same year with A Giraffe and a Half. The first, The Giving Tree, is a moving story about the love of a tree for a boy it took four years before Harper Children's books decided to publish it. Shel Silverstein's very first children's books, Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back was published in 1963, and followed the next year by two other books.
