Where the Sidewalk Ends

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Author: Shel Silverstein

ISBN: 0060586532

Publisher: HarperCollins, 2004

Age: 8 and up

Genre: Non-fiction, poetry

Summary: A collection of the poems and illustrations of award winning Shel Silverstein.  This book includes well known poems such as, “Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too,” “Sick,” “The Googies Are Coming,” and “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out.”  A creative and fun compilation for children and adults alike.

Read A-likes: A Light in the Attic; Falling Up; and The Giving Tree. 

Personal Thoughts: This book was always a favorite at our house, boys and girls alike.  We all had our favorite poems from this book.  My mother firmly believed that if we memorized poems and such when we were younger it would improve our brain capacity for other academic uses, so many of the poems in this book are still well loved and recited at our house.  My favorite was always “Sick”, and I still quote it today!  A fabulous, non-threatening, and engaging way to teach children poetry.