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Book

Where the sidewalk ends : the poems & drawings of Shel Silverstein.

Call Number

  • J 811 SILV (CEN, OSH)

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Edition

25th anniversary ed.

Performers

Shel Silverstein, reader.

Publication Information

New York : HarperCollins, 2002, c1974.

Physical Description

166 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Summary

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.

Notes

Includes index.

Contents

  • Book contents: Invitation
  • Eighteen flavors
  • Melinda Mae
  • Sick
  • Ickle me, pickle me, tickle me too
  • Enter this deserted house
  • Jimmy Jet and his TV set
  • For sale
  • Warning
  • Yipiyuk
  • Crocodile's toothache
  • Stone telling
  • Ridiculous Rose
  • Boa constrictor
  • Peanut-butter sandwich
  • Listen to the mustn'ts
  • Hug o'war
  • Smart
  • Forgotten language
  • Farmer and the queen
  • One who stayed
  • No difference
  • Wild boar
  • Thumbs
  • Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout would not take the garbage out
  • My hobby
  • Early bird
  • Me-Stew
  • Captain Hook
  • With his mouth full of food
  • Flying festoon
  • Silver fish
  • Generals
  • Worst
  • Dreadful
  • My beard.

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