Hardcover176 pages

Where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silversteins world begins. Celebrate the 40th anniversary ofWhere the Sidewalk Ends, the classic poetry collection that is both outrageously funny and profound.

InWhere the Sidewalk Ends, youll 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 Silversteins masterful collection of poems is one ofParent & Childmagazine’s 100 Greatest Books for Kids.School Library Journalsaid, 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 Silversteins incomparable career as a childrens book author and illustrator began withLafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back. In 1964, Shels creativity continued to flourish as four more books were published in the same yearDont 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.