Where the Sidewalk Ends

Silverstein, Shel

ISBN 10: 0224022784 ISBN 13: 9780224022781

Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1984

Synopsis

A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters in a collection of humorous poetry illustrated with the author's own drawings.

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Review:

"A zesty collection of humorous light verse."-- "SLJ.""An ideal book for teachers to have handy . . . If you want to ungloom your day, start Where the Sidewalk Ends." -- "Reading Teacher."

"An ideal book for teachers to have handy. If you want to ungloom your day, start Where the Sidewalk Ends."--Reading Teacher.

"A zesty collection of humorous light verse."--SLJ.

"These rhymes are perfect bite-sized nuggets of jest."--Brightly.com

About the Author:

Shel Silverstein's very first children's book Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back was published in 1963, and followed the next year by two other books. The first of those, 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 returned to humour that same year with A Giraffe and a Half. His first collection of poems and drawings, Where the Sidewalk Ends, appeared in 1974, and his second, A Light in the Attic, in 1981. When he was a G.I. in Japan and Korea in the 1950, he learned to play the guitar and to write songs, including 'A Boy Named Sue' for Johnny Cash. 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 was also an accomplished playwright, including the 1981 hit, 'The Lady or the Tiger Show.' The last book to be published before he died in 1999, was Falling Up (1996).

About this edition

• Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0224022784
• ISBN 13: 9780224022781
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 176