Where the Sidewalk Ends turns forty! To celebrate this anniversary of Shel Silverstein´s outrageous and profound classic poetry collection, the jacket features an eye-catching commemorative red sticker. This special edition, with twelve extra poems,was first published in 2004 and is a timeless bestseller. Where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein´s world begins. There 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 is one of Parent \u0026 Child magazine´s 100 Greatest Books for Kids.School Library Journal said, \"Silverstein has an excellent sense of rhythm and rhyme and a good ear for alliteration and assonance that make these poems a pleasure to read aloud.\" Shel Silverstein´s incomparable career as a children´s book author and illustrator began withLafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back. In 1964, Shel´s creativity continued to flourish as four more books were published in the same year—Don´t Bump the Glump! A Giraffe and a Half, Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros?, and the beloved classicThe Giving Tree. Later he continued to build his remarkable body of work withWhere the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up,Every Thing On It, The Missing Piece, The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, andRunny Babbit. Supports the Common Core State Standards.
