Where the Sidewalk Ends turns forty To celebrate this anniversary of Shel Silverstein's outrageous and profound classic poetry collection, the jacket features an eye-catching commemorative red sticker. This special edition, with twelve extra poems, was first published in 2004 and is a timeless bestseller. 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 & Child magazine'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.

" Shel Silverstein's incomparable career as a children's book author and illustrator began with Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back . In 1964, Shel's creativity continued to flourish as four more books were published in the same year Don't Bump the Glump , A Giraffe and a Half , Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros? , and the beloved classic The Giving Tree . Later he continued to build his remarkable body of work with Where the Sidewalk Ends , A Light in the Attic , Falling Up , Every Thing On It , The Missing Piece , The Missing Piece Meets the Big O , and Runny Babbit . Supports the Common Core State Standards. ".