| Poems and Drawings by Shel Silverstein
In large print and braille, on the same page!
Includes Silverstein's unmistakable line drawings.
Appropriate for ages 5 and up.
If you are a dreamer, come in.
If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer . . .
If you're a pretender, come sit by my fire,
For we have some flax golden tales to spin.
Come in!
Come in!
We heard it at every convention and meeting we went to, from parents, teachers, and Shel Silverstein lovers of all stripes: "Do you have Where the Sidewalk Ends?" Well, we finally took the hint!
Where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. You'll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. 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.
More than four and a half million copies of Where the Sidewalk Ends have been sold, making it the best-selling children's poetry book ever. Silverstein reveals his genius for reaching kids with silly words and simple pen-and-ink drawings. What child can resist a poem called "Dancing Pants" or "The Dirtiest Man in the World?" Each of the 128 poems is funny in a different way, or touching ... or both. Jim Trelease, author of The New Read-Aloud Handbook, calls this book "without question, the best-loved collection of poetry for children."
Shel Silverstein's masterful collection of poems and drawings is at once outrageously funny and profound.
A zesty collection of humorous light verse.
- School Library Journal
An ideal book for teachers to have handy . . . If you want to ungloom your day, start Where the Sidewalk Ends.
- Reading Teacher
Notable Children's Books of 1974 (ALA)
1985 Notable Children's Recording (BL)
Outstanding Children's Books of 1974 (NYT)
1988 Choices (Association of Booksellers for Children)
Notable Titles of 1974 (NYTBR)
1981 Michigan Young Readers' Award
1984 George C. Stone Center for Children's Books (Claremont, CA) "Recognition of Merit" Award
See also:
Oh, the Places You'll Go!
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