Sort order. Start your review of Where the Sidewalk Ends. Jul 31, Steve rated it really liked it. His parents did well naming him Shel.
He never did care to conform. What would compel a guy to rebel If everyone knew him as Norm? View all comments. Oct 07, Emily May rated it it was amazing Shelves: poetry , childrens. I'd rather play at hug o' war, Where everyone hugs Instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles And rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, And everyone grins, And everyone cuddles, And everyone wins.
View all 16 comments. Aug 05, Ahmad Sharabiani rated it really liked it Shelves: childrens-young-readers , bilingual , united-states , 20th-century , fiction , poetry. It was published by Harper and Row Publishers. The book's poems address many common childhood concerns and also present purely fanciful stories. View all 8 comments. Mar 11, James rated it really liked it Shelves: 1-fiction.
What a wonderful book to read with children at any age; that is, both any age for the reader and the children! I first read this book when I was about years-old, and then again in college. From the brilliant characters to the alliteration and rhyme, to the memorable lines and funny situations, it's one of those books where you will find something new each time you read it.
I cannot imagine being this creative. I can dream up stories about real people and situations and have written several, but to have an imagination where animals and things can talk, have emotions, interact in peculiar ways I admire Silverstein's massive fantasy world of freedom. He was so unconstrained in his ability to develop a world with just enough charm and beauty to win us all over.
It's a book all about perception, but without taking the didactic and pedantic approach. Children see things differently than adults. Adults have limits. Children have experiences. But what happens on the other side Who lives in the crack between cement blocks? The world of freedom does That's how to motivate readers with this book I could go on and on It's just a wonderful way to learn.
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Thanks for stopping by. Note : All written content is my original creation and copyrighted to me, but the graphics and images were linked from other sites and belong to them. Many thanks to their original creators. Feb 22, Robin Hobb rated it it was amazing. This is a book that has been on our family shelves literally for generations.
My own offspring enjoyed it, and are now sharing it with their children. There is a great pleasure in hearing someone say, "I remember when you read this to me. There is such a wide variety of poems in here, long and short, some that depend on his illustration and some that stand alone.
I think poetry is important for kids. There is a rhythm to our English language, and I think This is a book that has been on our family shelves literally for generations. There is a rhythm to our English language, and I think poetry has always captured it better than prose. So many of the poems here are complete little stories.
And I enjoy that they break the staid and starchy reputation that is so often unjustly attached to poetry. This is one of those books that can be opened to any page, any time. And it's definitely a book that begs to be shared and read aloud. View 2 comments. Shelves: ya , tmi. There's a polar bear - in the fridgedare - he likes it cuz its cold in there! I wrote a report on this in the 6th grade and I still remember that by heart. That was the year I got braces and Chris N. The braces smashed into my lip and it bled so bad!
I went to the bathroom with a girlfriend I can't remember her anymore - isn't that strange? My teacher looked at me - and I was trying to skulk so quietly in - and he said "Who did that to you?!?!?
He said something like "You don't hit girls! The funny thing?!?! That weekend I got chicken pox the second time! I am so not shitting you. And when I went to detention - they made me sit in the hall by myself rather than sitting in detention with all the assholes who got busted for real shit. Man I have had the most fucked up life. Read it. Read it to your kids. Read it to people you love.
And always remember that there IS a polar bear in the frigidare. I live in Minnesota so that really means something.
View all 25 comments. Oct 02, Michael Finocchiaro rated it it was amazing Shelves: poetry , kids , novels , americanth-c. This collection of children's poems from Shel Silverstein is a real treat. Each of the creatures and characters is fascinating and never overly moralistically drawn. There are lots of laughs here - both my kids adored these poems and were sad when I turned the last page.
View all 14 comments. Feb 10, Austin rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Everyone. 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 Every child eventually discovers the perverted old man who wrote songs for Johnny Cash, did illustrations for Playboy, appeared on the Dr.
If there are people who don't like Shel Silverstein, I don't want to meet them. Or, more to the point, you shouldn't meet them if that is an option. Knowing that Shel sees things this way, too, makes it all easier to take, and makes your own oddness that much more tolerable. We, as humans, need to come to terms with inexplicable and unfathomable in the world, and it wasn't until Shel that we began to realize that the only way to gently help our children do just that, is to let a perverted old weirdo with a large stack of Playboys in his basement lead the way.
View all 4 comments. Look O Look! I see a book! A book that gleams A book that screams Delightful things By Shel Silverstein Poems and drawings That are not boring They speak to me Like a tapestry Of childhood joys For girls and boys Not just for kids Adults will dig The funny rhymes of forgotten times When they were young And life was fun So turn the page Forget your age When the book ends You can start again And follow the bend Where the sidewalk ends.
View all 3 comments. Oct 21, Joel rated it it was amazing Shelves: classics , grade-school-books , day-book-challenge. I am crap at reciting from books. Sure, I know your super-famous opening lines and popular misquotations, but I don't really, like, pause in my reading to note a particularly nice turn of phrase so I can commit it to memory. Which is odd, because I have always had a pretty good memory for the spoken word and, especially, lyrics.
When I was little, my parents found this most amusing. They would hear me playing in my bedroom, singing random snatches of commercial jingles and songs from A Prairie Ho I am crap at reciting from books. They would hear me playing in my bedroom, singing random snatches of commercial jingles and songs from A Prairie Home Companion to myself. Then they would try to make me perform them for guests.
I had a cassette tape of Where the Sidewalk Ends read by the author that I listened to over and over, to the point where I had all the timing and inflections down and everything. I still have them memorized. The Crocodile's Toothache Oh, the crocodile went to the dentist and he sat down into the chair. And the dentist said, [jovially] "Now tell me sir, why does it hurt and where?
And the dentist laughed, [gleefully] "Oh, isn't this fun? And the crocodile cried, [frantic] "You're hurting me so! Finding the place where the sidewalks ends is not actually finding a real place. Silverstein describes the adult world in second stanza as a far cry from the actual place where the sidewalks ends.
For him, the smoke blows black and the dark streets bend in the adult place. In the third stanza, the poet encourages adult to open up their minds in locating the true place where the sidewalks ends. He opines that only children actually know the place. He is simply referring to the joyful and stress-free world of children.
The poet encourages adult to behave like children so that can get to the place where the sidewalk ends. In all, the "Where the Sidewalk Ends" can be interpreted as a place of joy and peace.
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