Where the Sidewalk Ends 30th Anniversary Edition: Poems and Drawings |  | Author: Shel Silverstein
Publisher: HarperCollins
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Rating:  100 reviews
Sales Rank: 590
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 30 Anv
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Pages: 192
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Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 6.9 x 1.4
ISBN: 0060572345
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780060572341
ASIN: 0060572345
Publication Date: January 2004
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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. Shel Silverstein's masterful collection of poems and drawings is at once outrageously funny and profound.
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Shel Was One Cool Dude.... September 8, 2005
Goodbye Cruel World (Under Your Skin)
23 out of 24 found this review helpful
I started reading this and other of Shel Silverstein's books when I was about four or five and to this day I have never "outgrown" him. I mean, who can? His rhymes and poems, songs and riddles, they all work for everybody with half a degree of imagination. The most cursory read of Where The Sidewalk Ends will show you not only how good/funny/imaginative/likable/silly/deep Silverstein is (sigh, was...) but you'll catch on to why he was so darn cool. This man was close personal friends with Roman Catholic Cardinals, hippies, rabbis, other poets, songwriters, and no less an icon than Hef, himself. (Shel practically lived the whole 1970's at the Playboy Mansion.) A little known fact is, Shel Silverstein even wrote a little song for his buddy Johnny Cash called "A Boy Named Sue". Ever heard of it? And of everything Shel wrote, the many books out there, I think this one MIGHT just be his best.
Or, wait...no, maybe it's The Light In The Attic.
No, no....maybe it's actually The Giving Tree....
Maybe? Maybe it was Falling Up?
I can never decide. One thing I do know and that's Where The Sidewalk Ends is Silverstein at his most awesome!
Where The Sidewalk Ends August 14, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book was very enjoyable. It made me laugh out loud. My favorite is Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would not take the Garbage Out! I really recommend it for everyone!
W E L O V E T H I S B O O K !!!!!! December 5, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I love this book!! My sister loves it too. It's because it IS a masterpiece and will forever remain one. Silverstein's rhymes and poems, songs and riddles -- they all work for everybody with half a degree of imagination. Another great book that I got as a birthday gift is Why Some Cats are Rascals, Book 2". I found it much more interesting than Book 1
Shel makes me smile March 22, 2006
Morgan Hanzlik (Vienna, VA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I enjoyed these poems as a child, and now reading them to my children gives me giggles and entertains my young ones too. These poems are unique, fascinating, creative, and always thoroughly enjoyable.
Good memories from childhood... February 28, 2010
Michelle L. Devon (Texas, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I had to purchase this one for my children, because I loved this book so much as a child. I was surprised sometimes by the innuendo that I didn't get as a child but totally get as an adult. My first time to read and laugh at these stories as a child, I remember fondly, was in fourth grade and I enjoyed being able to share them again with my children.
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