Where the Sidewalk Ends

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Category
Poetry
Reader Personality Type
Illustrator
Publisher
Harper Collins reissued 2014 (originally published 1963)
Curriculum
Language Arts Curriculum

Open this book and discover the key to seeing the world as a zany, hilarious, deeply special place.  It all begins with the invitation:

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!

Come on into the poems of Shel Silverstein where everyone can laugh at herself and wonder what it would be like to be down inside a lion.  Or get grossed out by having lost your head and now finding yourself sitting on a "rock" while you wonder how you are going to find that head again since you can't see anything.

There are rhymes and rhythms and imagination run wild.  There are wondrous drawings for which the word "droll" was invented.  Stretch your own sense of fun and possible through simply worded poems stuffed nicely with giggles and nonsense.

"The pen is almost out of ink.  But I have enough I thin....."

978-0060572341  Ages   5-11    183 pages

Recommended by:  Barb

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