Where the Sidewalk Ends 30th Anniversary Edition: Poems and Drawings

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Additional Where the Sidewalk Ends 30th Anniversary Edition: Poems and Drawings Information

Including 12 New Poems!

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 . . .

Come in . . . for 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.

Shel Silverstein's masterful collection of poems and drawings is at once outrageously funny and profound.

What Customers Say About Where the Sidewalk Ends 30th Anniversary Edition: Poems and Drawings:

We enjoyed the bonus poems but I don't know if those poems are worth a premium price. You can pick it up and open to a random page, read a few poems and walk away with a smile. I bought this as a gift for someone who had never read any of Silverstein's poems and he loved it. This is a great book for kids or for adults who need a grin very now and then.

I would recommend to parents who want to get their children to enjoy reading without realizing they're learning. But don't limit this book to just your child because I'm sure you too may enjoy rereading the poems you read in school (or maybe you never did. I have to say I love reading this to my 1 year old son. Reading can be fun. awww.too bad:()I'd have to say this is one of those children's books that YOU (the parent) will enjoy reading and NOT be bored by. Reading them makes me nostalgic. They are mostly humorous but some do carry an underlying lesson about life.

SICK (the little girl with Munchausen's and school phobia/avoidance) was another one I remembered from when I was a little girl. This collection of poems is amazing. I know we will be turning to this book for many years ahead. Hannah enjoys Dirty Dan, (the world's dirtiest man) at present. The drawings are cute as well. I can remember Ickle Me, Tickle Me, and Pickle Me from my own childhood.

This is a wonderful book Igot it for my grandaughter for my great granddaughter when she is older.we have loved it for years.

(warning was my favorite). the main reason I say that is you can read a few of them (kids really love them just like the parents did when we were kids) and it can be short.You know how it is your kid picks the LONGEST book in the world every night trying to drag bedtime out. Little kids love them and so do big kids. This book holds up though the years. Well no kid will turn down Shel for bed and you only have to read 1 story or many.These story's are fun, funny and cute. Most of us read them as kids and even Memorized a few of them.