Where The Sidewalk Ends: Poems And Drawings

Poetry collection by Shel Silverstein

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Writer	Shel Silverstein
Illustrator	Shel Silverstein
Cover creative person	Shel Silverstein
Country	Us of America
Linguistic communication	English
Genre	Children'due south poetry
Publisher	Harper & Row
Publication date	1974
Pages	309 and Aric

Where the Sidewalk Ends is a 1974 children'southward poetry drove written and illustrated past Shel Silverstein. It was published past Harper and Row Publishers. The volume's poems address many common childhood concerns and likewise present purely fanciful stories and imagination inspiring images. Based on a 2007 online poll, the National Didactics Association list the book equally one of its "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children."^[1] Controversial considering of profanity and subject thing, the book was banned in many libraries and schools.^[ii] ^[3]

A 30th Anniversary Edition of the volume appeared in 2004, and two sound editions (1983 and 2000) are also available.

Contents and editions [edit]

The drove contains a series of poems, including the championship poem "Where the Sidewalk Ends", too as illustrations. The author defended this volume "For Ursula" and gives thank you to Ursula Nordstrom, Barbara Borack, Kadijah Cooper, Dorothy Hagen, Beri Greenwald, Gloria Bressler, and Bill Cole.

In 2004, a special 30th Anniversary Edition was published, which included 12 new poems. The post-obit titles are found simply in the 30th Ceremony Edition:

The Truth About Turtles
Oops!
Mr. Grumpledump'southward Vocal
Naked Hippo
Who'south Taller?
Monsters
Weightliftress
Don't Tell Me
Ten-O-Cycle
The Unfunny Jester
Open up—Close
Gorilla

Audio editions [edit]

Original anthology [edit]

The audio edition of the volume was originally released as an album in 1983, which won the 1984 Grammy Laurels for Best Recording For Children. The collection is recited, sung, and shouted past Shel Silverstein himself and produced by Ron Haffkine. Released on Columbia/CBS Records, he too performed it at the 1984 Grammy Awards.

The following poems tin can be heard on the album:

Side A

Invitation - (clarification needed)
Eighteen Flavors - Animals ask for ice foam, and throw a tantrum when they don't accept money.
Melinda Mae - A daughter eats a whale.
Sick - A niggling girl develops an ingenuitive plan to become out of school before realizing it isn't needed.
Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too- These iv characters run away in a flying shoe
Enter This Deserted House
Jimmy Jet and His Television set Set - What happens to most modern humans, a boy watches Tv set for so long that he turns into one.
For Sale - Someone tries to sell their sister
Alert - (description needed)
The Yipiyuk - A Yipiyuk has bitten someone'due south toe, and volition not come up off
Crocodile's Toothache - A sadistic dentist is eaten by a crocodile
Stone Telling - (description needed)
Ridiculous Rose - a ridiculous daughter eats with her toes
Boa Constrictor - A boa constrictor eats people
Peanut–Butter Sandwich - A foolish king brings about his own peanut-buttery doom
Listen to the Mustn'ts - Although pessimists contend otherwise, anything is possible.
I Volition Not Hatch - A chick will not hatch because of the terrible descriptions of what's going on in the world.

Side B

Hug o' War
Smart
The Farmer and the Queen
The 1 Who Stayed
No Differences
Wild Boar
Thumbs
Sarah Cynthia Silvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out - A trivial girl refuses to take out her house'southward garbage, and soon, it piles upwardly and so much, everyone stays away from her firm. By the time she decides to do so, it is already too belatedly, and she ends up coming together a terrible fate that She cannot recollect (it is implied she was either consumed by the garbage or suffocated by its smell).
My Hobby
Early Bird
Me–Stew
Captain Hook
With His Mouth Full of Food
The Flight Festoon
The Silver Fish
The Generals
The Worst
Dreadful
My Beard
Producer & Manager: Ron Haffkine, Keith Cozart
Engineer: jb & Danny Mundhenk & Oliver Masciarotte
Mastering: Denny Purcell

Recorded at Bullet Recording, Nashville, Bare Tapes, New York, and in Studio D at Criteria Recording in Miami, Florida.

25th ceremony album [edit]

In 2000, the album was re-released on cassette and CD for the 25th anniversary of the volume. This collection is copyrighted 1984 and 2000 past Sony Music Amusement Inc. The drove is over again recited, sung, and shouted by Shel Silverstein.

The 25th anniversary edition also contains 11 previously unreleased tracks culled from the original master tapes. They are as follows:

The Little Blue Engine
If I Had a Brontosaurus
1 Inch Tall
Long-Haired Boy
Pelting
True Stories
Hungry Mungry
Continuing
If The World Was Crazy
Hector the Collector
Spaghetti

References [edit]

^ National Instruction Clan (2007). "Teachers' Top 100 Books for Children". Retrieved August 22, 2012.
^ Margalit, Ruth (2014-xi-05). ""The Giving Tree" at Fifty: Sadder Than I Remembered". The New Yorker . Retrieved 2019-11-05 .
^ Laliberte, Marissa. "20 Books We Bet You Never Knew Were Banned". Reader'due south Digest . Retrieved 2019-xi-05 .