![]() ![]() He was also an accomplished playwright, including the 1981 hit, "The Lady or the Tiger Show." His latest collection, and his last book to be published before he died in 1999, was Falling Up (1996). ![]() In 1984, Silverstein won a Grammy Award for Best Children's Album for Where the Sidewalk Ends - "recited, sung and shouted" by the author. Where the Sidewalk Ends is a treasure trove for young readers: eloquent, outrageous, subversive, nonsensical, and daring. ![]() He also learned to play the guitar and to write songs, including "A Boy Named Sue" for Johnny Cash and "The Cover of the Rolling Stone" sung by Dr. He grew up in Chicago and created his first cartoons for the adult readers of Pacific Stars and Stripes, when he was a G.I. 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 place where the sidewalk ends (16) Its kind of like a refrain, or a phrase that occurs over and over again. The first, 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. Shel Silverstein's very first children's books, Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back was published in 1963, and followed the next year by two other books. ![]()
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