Where the Sidewalk Ends Special Edition with 12 Extra Poems: Poems and Drawings (Hardcover) by Shel Silverstein

Where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein’s world begins. Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Where the Sidewalk Ends, the classic poetry collection that is both outrageously funny and profound. This book features twelve poems that were not in the original edition.

In Where the Sidewalk Ends, 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 one of Parent & Child magazine's 100 Greatest Books for Kids. 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 incomparable career as a children’s book author and illustrator began with Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back. In 1964, Shel’s creativity continued to flourish as four more books were published in the same year—Don’t Bump the Glump!, A Giraffe and a Half, Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?, and the beloved classic The Giving Tree. Later he continued to build his remarkable body of work with Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, Every Thing On It, The Missing Piece, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, and Runny Babbit. 

Review

“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

From the Back Cover

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. This special edition has twelve extra poems that did not appear in the original collection.

Product details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins; 40th Anniversary ed. edition (February 18, 2014)

Language ‏ : ‎ English

Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 183 pages

ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0060572345

ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0060572341

Reading age ‏ : ‎ 4+ years, from customers

Lexile measure ‏ : ‎ NP

Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.45 pounds

Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.8 x 6.7 x 1.2 inches

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