Shel Silverstein

A young boy grows to manhood and old age experiencing the love and generosity of a tree which gives to him without thought of return.

Runny Babbit lent to wunch And heard the saitress way, "We have some lovely stabbit rew -- Our Special for today." From the legendary creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends , A Light in the Attic , Falling Up , and The Giving Tree comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature. Welcome to the world of Runny Babbit and his friends Toe Jurtle, Skertie Gunk, Rirty Dat, Dungry Hog, Snerry Jake, and many others who speak a topsy-turvy language...

There are lots of things a rhinoceros can do around one's house, including eating bad report cards before one's parents see them, tiptoeing downstairs for a midnight snack, and collecting extra allowance.

Cumulative rhymed text explains what might happen if you had a giraffe that stretched another half, put on a hat in which lived a rat that looked cute in a suit, and so on. Delightfully zany rhymes about a giraffe who accumulates some ridiculous things -- like glue on his shoe and a bee on his knee -- only to lose them again, one by one.

A circle has difficulty finding its missing piece but has a good time looking for it.

A circle has difficulty finding its missing piece but has a good time looking for it.

The second original book to be published since Silverstein's passing in 1999, this poetry collection includes more than one hundred and thirty never-before-seen poems and drawings completed by the cherished American artist and selected by his family from his archives.

A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters in a collection of humorous poetry illustrated with the author's own drawings. Shel Silverstein is a genius of reaching children with silly words and simple pen-and-ink illustrations. In these poems a boy turns into a television, a girl eats a whale, crocodiles go to the dentist, shadows get washed and diamond gardens are planted. All these crazy scenarios make...

NOW AVAILABLE AS AN EBOOK-TWO BOOKS IN ONE! From New York Times bestselling Shel Silverstein, celebrated creator of The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, and Falling Up, comes two charming companion fables in one ebook, The Missing Piece and The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, that gently probe the nature of quest and fulfillment, available in ebook for the very first time! And don't miss these other Shel Silverstein ebooks:...

"Es un clásico de 1964 que, soprende y cautiva por su sentido del humor, su frescura y la habilidad de aparente seriedad. Ni el perro, ni el gato, ni el canario, ni los peces son ya la mascot ideal, sino un rinoceronte, cuya precencia en el hogar aporta multiples ventajas (y algunos incovenientes"--Amazon.com. There are lots of things a rhinoceros can do around one's house, including eating bad report cards before one's parents see them, tiptoeing...