a light in the attic by shel silverstein

Is how it starts, and the laughter builds to the most riotous ending possible. You don’t have to laugh it up even if most of my stuff is humorous.” Shel returned to humor that same year with Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros? and A Giraffe and a Half She even let him keep the sad ending, Shel remembered, “because life, you know, has pretty sad endings. It took Shel four years before Ursula Nordstrom, the legendary Harper & Row editor, decided to publish it. Others felt that the book fell between adult and children’s literature and wouldn’t be popular.

one publisher said it was too short.” Some thought it was too sad. “Everybody loved it, they were touched by it, they would read it and cry and say it was beautiful. In an interview published in the Chicago Tribune in 1964, Shel talked about the difficult time he had trying to get the book published. The first, The Giving Tree, is a moving story about the love of a tree for a boy.

It was followed the next year by four new books. It’s funny and sad and has made readers laugh and think ever since it was published in 1963. a story about a very strange lion-in fact, the strangest lion I have ever met.” So begins Shel Silverstein’s very first children’s book, Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back. You will talk with Broiled Face, and find out what happens when Somebody steals your knees, you get caught by the Quick-Digesting Gink, a Mountain snores, and They Put a Brassiere on the Camel.Ĭome on up to the attic of Shel Silverstein and let the light bring you home.Īnd don't miss these other Shel Silverstein ebooks, The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends, and Falling Up!“And now. Here in the attic you will find Backward Bill, Sour Face Ann, the Meehoo with an Exactlywatt, and the Polar Bear in the Frigidaire.

This digital edition also includes twelve poems previously only available in the special edition hardcover.Ī Light in the Attic delights with remarkable characters and hilariously profound poems in a collection readers will return to again and again. From New York Times bestselling author Shel Silverstein, the creator of the beloved poetry collections Where the Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, comes an imaginative book of poems and drawings-a favorite of Shel Silverstein fans young and old.

A light in the attic by shel silverstein