Where the Sidewalk Ends

by Silverstein, Shel

• ISBN13: 9780060572341
• ISBN10: 0060572345
• Edition: 30th
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-05-28
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

Again, another outstanding book by Shel Silverstein, 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.

The book has many different poems about a wide variety of subjects. The poems describe a lot of everyday events with a funny twist. Shel Silverstein writes about taking out the garbage, jumping rope, and making a list.

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

Excerpts

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

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! 

Where the Sidewalk Ends 30th Anniversary Special Edition
Poems and Drawings. Copyright © by Shel Silverstein. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.

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