Genre: Poetry
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishing, 1974
Pages: 183
Rating: Recommend
Synopsis: Where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. There you'll 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 Silverstein's masterful collection of poems and drawings is one of Parent & Childmagazine's 100 Greatest Books for Kids. School Library Journal said, "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."
Review: Of course I've known about Shel Silverstein and this book for years, practically since birth, but I had never sat down and read it. When my 2016 Reading Challenge required a book of poetry Where the Sidewalk Ends immediately came to mind. It was cute. While most of the poems are nonsensical and simple in their meaning, his use of alliteration and rhyme was just fun.
I highly doubt some of these would be published if written today, guns and death are just a couple of the themes that I found questionable in my 2016 mind.
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