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  2. Where the Sidewalk Ends - Wikipedia

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    Where the Sidewalk Ends is a 1974 children's poetry collection written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein. [1] It was published by Harper and Row Publishers.The book's poems address common childhood concerns and also present fanciful stories and imaginative images.

  3. Falling Up (poetry collection) - Wikipedia

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    Children's literature portal; Falling Up is a 1996 poetry collection primarily for children written and illustrated by Shel Silverstein [1] and published by HarperCollins.It is the third poetry collection published by Silverstein, following Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974) and A Light in the Attic (1981), and the final one to be published during his lifetime, as he died just three years after ...

  4. Shel Silverstein - Wikipedia

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    Ursula Nordstrom, Silverstein's editor at Harper & Row, encouraged Silverstein to write children's poetry. Silverstein said that he had never studied the poetry of others and had therefore developed his own quirky style, laid back and conversational, occasionally employing profanity and slang.

  5. A Light in the Attic - Wikipedia

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    A Light in the Attic is a book of poems by American poet, writer, and musician Shel Silverstein. The book consists of 135 poems accompanied by illustrations also created by Silverstein. [ 1 ] It was first published by Harper & Row Junior Books in 1981 and was a bestseller for months after its publication, [ 2 ] but it has also been the subject ...

  6. The Little Engine That Could - Wikipedia

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    This book was chosen by "Jumpstart Read for the Record" to be read worldwide to tens of thousands of children on August 24, 2006. [29] Shel Silverstein wrote the poem "The Little Blue Engine", which referenced this story. [30] A song version co-written by famed Looney Tunes writer Warren Foster was covered by John Denver, [31] Burl Ives [32 ...

  7. The Missing Piece (book) - Wikipedia

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    It starts out on a grand adventure searching for the perfect piece to complete itself, while singing and enjoying the scenery. But after the circle finally finds the exact-sized wedge that fits it, it begins to realize that it can no longer do the things it used to enjoy doing, like singing or rolling slowly enough to enjoy the company of a worm or butterfly.

  8. Runny Babbit - Wikipedia

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    Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook is a children's book by Shel Silverstein. A work in progress for the better part of 20 years, the book was published posthumously in March 2005. The book is largely composed of spoonerisms in rhyming verse. [1]

  9. Free to Be... You and Me - Wikipedia

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    Smothers sings "Helping", a poem by Shel Silverstein. Thomas talks to children about having a sibling, then the Voices of East Harlem perform "Sisters and Brothers." Tyson reads "Three Wishes" by Lucille Clifton, a folktale about a girl who gets three wishes after finding a penny with her birth year on New Year's Day.