Shel Silverstein

Last night while I lay thinking here Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear And pranced and partied all night long And sang their same old Whatif song: Whatif I flunk that test? Whatif green hair grows on my chest? Whatif nobody likes me? Whatif a bolt of lightning strikes me?...This 20th anniversary of Shel Silverstein's A Light in the Attic includes a CD of highlights from his Grammy Award-winning album. Here in the attic of Shel Silverstein you will find Backward Bill, Sour Face Ann, the Meehoo with an Exactlywatt, and the Polar Bear in the Frigidaire. You will talk with Broiled Face, and find out what happens when Somebody steals your knees, you get caught by the Quick-Digesting Gink, a Mountain snores, and They Put a Brassiere on the Camel. From the creator of the beloved poetry collections Where the Sidewalk Ends and Falling Up, here is another wondrous book of poems and drawings.

"Once there was a tree...and she loved a little boy." So begins a story of unforgettable perception, beautifully written and illustrated by the gifted and versatile Shel Silverstein. Every day the boy would come to the tree to eat her apples, swing from her branches, or slide down her trunk...and the tree was happy. But as the boy grew older he began to want more from the tree, and the tree gave and gave and gave. This is a tender story, touched with sadness, aglow with consolation. Shel Silverstein has created a moving parable for readers of all ages that offers an affecting interpretation of the gift of giving and a serene acceptance of another's capacity to love in return.

Come in... for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. Shel Silverstein, the New York Times bestselling author of The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, has created a poetry collection that is outrageously funny and deeply profound. 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 stretches the bounds of imagination and will be cherished by readers of all ages.

Millie McDeevit screamed a scream, so loud it made her eyebrows steam. She screamed so loud, her jawbone broke, Her tongue caught fire, her nostrils smoked... Poor Screamin' Millie is just one of the unforgettable characters in this wondrous new book of poems and drawings. Here you will also meet Allison Beals and her twenty-five eels; Danny O'Dare, the dancin' bear; the Human Balloon; and Headphone Harold. Shel Silverstein, the New York Times bestselling author of The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, has created a poetry collection that is outrageously funny and deeply profound. So come, wander through the Nose Garden, ride the Little Hoarse, eat in the Strange Restaurant, and let the magic of Shel Silverstein open your eyes and tickle your mind. Story List - Advice - Allison Beals and Her 25 Eels - Alphabalance - Bad Cold - A Battle in the Sky - The Bear, the Fire, and the Snow - Best Mask? - Big Eating Contest - Bituminous? - Blood-Curdling Story - Body Language - Camp Wonderful - Carrots - Castle - Cat, a Kid, and a Mom - Cat Jacks - Cereal - Christmas Dog - Clean Gene - Complainin' Jack - Cookwitch Sandwich - Crazy Dream - Crystal Ball - Danny O'Dare - The Deadly Eye - Dentist Dan - Description - Diving Board - Don the Dragon's Birthday - Eggs Rated - Falling Up - Feeding Time - The Folks Inside - Foot Repair - Forgetful Paul Revere - The Former Foreman's Story - Furniture Bash - Gardener - Glub-Glub - The Gnome, the Gnat, and the Gnu - Golden Goose - Hand Holding - Hard to Please - Haunted - Headless Town - Headphone Harold - Help! - Hi-Monster - Human Balloon - Hungry Kid Island - Hypnotized - Ice Cream Stop - Imagining - In the Land of... - James - Kanga Ruby - Keepin' Count - Keep-Out House - Little Hoarse - Little Pig's Treat - Long-Leg Lou and Short-Leg Sue - Long Scarf - Lyin' Larry - Mari-Lou's Ride - Medusa - Mirror, Mirror - Mister Moody - Molly's Folly - Monkey - Morgan's Curse - Mummy - Music Lesson - My Nose Garden - My Robot - My Sneaky Cousin - The Nap Taker - Needles and Pins - New World - No - No Grown-Ups - No Thank You - Noise Day - Nope - Obedient - Ooh! - One Out of Sixteen - People Zoo - Pinocchio - Plugging In - Poison-Tester - Porky - Quality Time - Reachin' Richard - Red Flowers for You - Remote-a-Dad - Rotten Convention - Runners - Sack Race - Safe? - Scale - Screamin' Millie - Settin' Around - Shanna in the Sauna - Sharing - Shoe Talk - Short Kid - Show Fish - Sidewalking - Smile Makers - Snowball - Somethin' New - Sorry I Spilled It - Spoiled Brat - Stone Airplane - Stork Story - Strange Restaurant - Stupid Pencil Maker - Sun Hat - Sybil the Magician's Last Show - Tattooin' Ruth - Tell Me - They Say I Have... - Tongue Sticker-Outer - The Toy Eater - Three O'clock - Three Stings - Turkey? - Unfair - Use for a Moose - The Voice - Warmhearted - Wastebasket Brother - Weavers - Web-Foot Woe - Weird-Bird - We're Out of Paint, So… - When I Was Your Age - Why Is It? - Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda - Writer Waiting - Yuck

If you had a giraffe and he stretched another half … you would have a giraffe and a half. And if you glued a rose to the tip of his nose … And … if he put on a shoe and then stepped in some glue … And if he used a chair to comb his hair … And so it goes until … but that would be telling. Children will be kept in stitches until the very end, when the situation is resolved in the most riotous way possible. Shel Silverstein's incomparable line drawings add to the hilarity of his wildly funny rhymes.

Have you ever read a book with everything on it? Well, here it is, an amazing collection of never-before-published poems from the creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, and Falling Up. You will say Hi-ho for the toilet troll, get tongue-tied with Stick-a-Tongue-Out-Sid, play a highly unusual horn, and experience the joys of growing down. What's that? You have a case of the Lovetobutcants? Impossible! Just come on in and let the magic of Shel Silverstein bend your brain and open your heart. From bestselling Shel Silverstein, celebrated creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, and Falling Up, comes an amazing collection of never-before-published poems and drawings. And don't miss Runny Babbit Returns (2017), the new book from Shel Silverstein! Edition MSRP: US $19⁹⁹ US (ISBN 978-0-06-199816-4)

From Shel Silverstein, the celebrated author of The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends, comes The Missing Piece, a charming fable that gently probes the nature of quest and fulfillment. "It was missing a piece. And it was not happy." What it finds on its search for the missing piece is simply and touchingly told. This inventive and heartwarming fable can be read on many levels, and Silverstein’s iconic drawings and humor are sure to delight fans of all ages. "So it set off in search of its missing piece. And as it rolled it sang this song— 'Oh I'm lookin' for my missin' piece I'm lookin' for my missin' piece Hi-dee-ho, here I go, Lookin' for my missin' piece." And don't miss Runny Babbit Returns (2017), the new book from Shel Silverstein!