Silverstein is probably the best of the contemporary. All of Silversteins poetry for children employs the language play common to Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. And dont miss The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein, also available as ebooks Author: Shel Silverstein ISBN:9780060256739.
He was also an accomplished playwright, including the 1981 hit, 'The Lady or the Tiger Show.' The last book to be published before he died in 1999, was Falling Up (1996). However, two collections of poetry are probably his best-loved work: Where the Sidewalk Ends: The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein (1974), and A Light in the Attic (1981). In its own outlandish way, A Light in the Attic is a collection of inspirational poems, beginning with the title poem, which suggests that the lights are on and somebody is home, and ending. In 1984, Silverstein won a Grammy Award for Best Children's Album for Where the Sidewalk Ends - 'recited, sung and shouted' by the author.
It was first banned in a Florida school in 1993 because adults thought it promoted, and even encouraged, disobedience, violence, suicide, Satan and cannibalism. in Japan and Korea in the 1950, he learned to play the guitar and to write songs, including 'A Boy Named Sue' for Johnny Cash. Shel Silverstein, the world’s most famous children’s poetry author, had his book, A Light in the Attic banned and challenged several times. His first collection of poems and drawings, Where the Sidewalk Ends, appeared in 1974, and his second, A Light in the Attic, in 1981. Shel returned to humour that same year with A Giraffe and a Half.
The first of those, The Giving Tree, is a moving story about the love of a tree for a boy it took four years before Harper Children's books decided to publish it.
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