If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a wisher, a lier, 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!~Shel Silverstein
Oh gosh... I feel like hitting Grif with the book....
Yeah. I grew up on his poems and everything. It makes me happy just thinking about it. He combined characters with thepoetry, connecting it with pictures well. And it was so absurd, yet so true, that it's just great stuff.
Ubi caritas est vera, Deus ibi est.
"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly." ~ Richard Bach
I have read Where the Sidewalk Ends and The Giving Tree, and both of the books rock!
If you are a dreamer, come in. If you are a wisher, a lier, 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!~Shel Silverstein
lexy wrote:No I have never heard of him/her. Are they any good?
^ Seriously?
You poor, deprived girl.
Go to your local library, type "Shel Silverstein" into the catalog search engine thing and they should have at least one of his books. They're nice books of fun, rhyming poetry and a real pleasure to read. I think so, anyway. Perfect for little kids and grownups alike, and those of us inbetween.
"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring." -Chuck Palahniuk
I lived on his books in school. Everytime we went to the library to get independent reading books, I got an SS book. Now, if I have the chance to get my hands on one....I still do. His work is awesome. It's funny...and there are just way too many melodramatic poems anymore. You need that release every once in awhile!
