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Shel Silverstein
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Language
English
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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. Come in - for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. 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...
Author
Language
English
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Description
From the legendary creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and The Giving Tree comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature.
Welcome to the world of Runny Babbit and his friends Toe Jurtle, Skertie Gunk, Rirty Dat, Dungry Hog, Snerry Jake, and many others who speak a topsy-turvy language all their own.
So if you say, ""Let's bead a rook
That's billy as can se,""
You're
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The second original book to be published since Silverstein's passing in 1999, this poetry collection includes more than one hundred and thirty never-before-seen poems and drawings completed by the cherished American artist and selected by his family from his archives.
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
" ... A heartwarming burlesque of the American Dream served with a twist of bitter irony. Gino, a gentle old shoeshine man who dreams of owning a fishing boat back in his Sicilian birthplace, gets an offer he can't refuse--to take the rap for a Mafia murder committed by a man he resembles. In return he'll get more than enough money to buy his boat--when he gets out of jail. Jerry, a down-and-almost-out member of the gang, is assigned the task of turning...
