Where the Sidewalk Ends 30th Anniversary Edition. Poems and Drawings

Customer Reviews

4th Grade Class Top Ten Winner

2008-05-04
Our review is for the book Where The Sidewalk Ends. The author and illustrator is Shel Silverstein. The gernre is funny poetry.
This is one of the many great poetry books Shel Silverstein wrote. If you love amusing books and you love poetry then you'll love Where The Side Walks Ends. There are humorous long poems like Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out or short ones like warning or hat. If you want to hear more terrific poems you'll have to read it. It's a good one I promise.
Shel Silverstein wants us to laugh and have fun. Don't be up tight be able to laugh your head off. It's on our 4th grade class's top ten because the poems are hilariously funny. I'm sure you'll agree when you read it.

Walk Down Memory Lane

2008-05-01
Lately I have been purchasing books for my 9 month old baby. I want her to enjoy reading as much as I do, and have been collecting books that I loved growing up. As soon as I saw this book, I knew I had to have it. She is still a little young to truly appreciate it, but I am having a blast reading the poems that I enjoyed as I child. Definitely a "must have" for everyone.

Superb!

2008-04-20
My five year old cannot get enough of Shel Silverstein. He reads 10 or more poems out loud every day and has memorized several of them. This is our favorite collection of poems. They are funny, clever, imaginative. Even the illustrations are excellent. You can read them and then read them over and over again. The extra poems in the back are a great addition. Highly recommended.

Where the Sidewalk Ends

2008-04-18
I thought it was a great book, with hilarious poems, sad poems, and strange poems. I think Shel Silverstein is a great and creative writer. I especially liked the funny poetry. I was always anxious to read the next poem. The book was very easy to read because the language was simple and easy to understand, and the length of the poems were short and to the point. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves to see humor in a potpourri of subjects. It was a fantastic book.

Such a Classic!

2008-04-15
I loved this book when I was a child and still do. My kids really like it too. The only thing I want to note, being a mother of two young kids (2 and 4) is that the pictures and some of the content can be just the tiniest bit harsh for the really young ones. Of course, when we were kids it wouldn't even be thought twice about; but, it's a little different now and some parents are worried about such things. That aside...buy the book!

Doesn't get better

2008-04-09

Including 12 New Poems!

If you are a dreamer, come in,
If you are a dreamer,
A wisher, a liar,
A hope-er, a pray-er,
A magic bean buyer . . .

Come in . . . for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. 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 at once outrageously funny and profound.

very happy....

2008-04-06
i find that the book came in a timely manner, it was well protected. as for the book nothing could be better than it...

Virtually Taken Care Of! enjoys walking on the sidewalk!

2008-03-14
Shel Silverstein's poems are so enjoyable because they are fun but also touch on the realities of life. Along with the fun poetry are some great illustrations!

Still fun to read

2008-02-09
I remember reading this book as a child and was excited to get it for my own children to enjoy. The poems are silly and creative with great pictures. It's nice because you can only read a few at a time to sneak in some reading to the day. My 18 month old likes the rhyming words and my 3 year old likes the funny stories. I know they will continue to grow into this book and hopefully read the stories themselves when they get older. A must have for any child's library.

a gem for teaching ESL

2008-02-08
i grew up on these poems and never forgot them. when i started teaching esl, i realized that they are a treasure-trove. the illustrations aid with interpretation, the rhymes aid with pronunciation, the poems are exceedingly fun, and the grammatical games and made-up words can be used as teaching tools. there are poems for all levels, from the basic lazy-lazy-lazy-lazy jane to the advanced stories like the one about the girl who dies because her parents don't give her a horse (these poems may be in another of shel's collections, i can't keep track). teachers of ESL, give it a go, you won't be disappointed.