I read this with my son when he was little many times and have many happy memories!

پیانو:دختر بچه دلش می‌خواست پیانو بزنددست به کلید‌ها نمی‌رسیددست که به کلیدها رسیدپاهایش به زمین نمی‌رسیددست به کلیدها رسیدپاهایش به زمین رسیداما دیر بود،دیگر دلش نمی‌خواست پیانو بزند…۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰۰کوچولو و پیرمرد:پسر کوچولو گفت:بعضی‌وقت‌ها، قاشق از دستم می‌افتدپیرمرد گفت: من هم همینطورپسرِ کوچولو گفت:بعضی‌وقت‌ها شلورارم را خیس می‌کنمپیرمرد با لبخند گفت:برای من هم پیش می‌آیدپسر کوچولو گفت:زیادی گریه می‌کنمپیرمرد به علامت سر تصدیق سر جنباند.ای وای مثل خودمپسر کوچولو گفت:ب...

I'm in love with the following poem (page 59) 😍😍..."ATIONSIf we meet and I say, 'Hi,'That's a salutation. 👋If you ask me how I feel,That's consideration. 🤔If we stop and talk awhile,That's a conversation. 🗣️If we understand each other, That's communication. 💬If we argue, scream and fight,That's an altercation. 🤬If later we apologize, That's reconciliation. 🤝If we help each other home, That's cooperation. 🚶And all these ations added up Make civilization. 🫂(And if I say this is a wonderf...

Did I read a children’s book last night for comfort? Yes, yes I did.

This is definitely not as amazing as where the sidewalk ends, but these poems hit just as hard. They’re fun for kids (totally recommend you to read them to your children: 5 and up) and you’ll be shocked every time these give you some adult life lessons as well 🫶🏻

also they’re so hilarious and intelligently written, every kid who grows up with this will 100% be smarter than everyone else.

I got some Shel Silverstein books from the library to feed my nostalgia, and it was an interesting reread. They're as funny and easy and light as I remember, but I'm shocked by how much I didn't remember. Maybe I just skimmed it for the pictures as a kid, but still, these were entertaining to read out loud to my cats.

2016 Genre Challenge: Poetry

“Do a loony-goony dance
'Cross the kitchen floor,
Put something silly in the world
That ain't been there before.”

“A Light in the Attic” is one of Shel Silverstein’s best yet most controversial books of poems ever written. This book is full of poems about clowns, pirates, monsters and all manner of strange people and animals doing crazy things. “A Light in the Attic” may be too suggestive and morbid for smaller children, but older children will easily delight themselves with the silly shenanigans of the characters. Shel Silverstein’s writing is as witty as it is funny as he writes each character’s stories i...

Every child eventually discovers the perverted old man who wrote songs for Johnny Cash, did illustrations for Playboy, appeared on the Dr. Demento show numerous times, and managed to get a few books published along the way. For some reason, parents never seem to think this creepy old guy who was so fond of children was in any way "disturbing," something I'm continually impressed with in the "ban now, ask questions later" climate of modern culture. If there are people who don't like Shel Silverst...

The feelings I have about Shel Silverstein's A Light in the Attic and Where The Sidewalk Ends contrast so sharply with the books themselves. I loved these funny, whimsical and sometimes downright sadistic poems with all of my young heart. Even now, I feel like I'm getting away with something when I think of Clarence Lee from Tennesee who loved the commercials he saw on TV. I am still afraid for Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me too who never returned to the world they knew. In Shel Silverstein's bo...