Shel Silverstein
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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. Come in - for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. 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...
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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.
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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. Infectiously funny ... a good nonsensical text and illustrations.
15) Falling up
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Twelve new poems and drawings selected from the Silverstein archives.
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Un muchacho crece a la juventud a la ancianidad experimentando el amor y la generosidad de un árbol que le da sin esperar que su amor sea correspondido.
Summary in English: A young boy grows to manhood and old age experiencing the love and generosity of a tree that gives to him without thought of return.
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"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...