shel silverstein

     

This "Where the Sidewalk Ends" poet gave us a "Recipe for a Hippopotamus Sandwich"

Trivia about shel silverstein

  • His work appeared in Playboy & Stars & Stripes before he gained fame with "The Giving Tree"
  • This poet wrote of a self-sacrificing apple tree in "The Giving Tree"
  • Dirty Dan, in this "Giving Tree" author's "The Dirtiest Man in the World", lives "in a pen with 5 hogs and a hen"
  • 1996's "Falling Up" is the first new verse collection in 15 years by this author of "The Giving Tree"
  • The kids' classic "Where the Sidewalk Ends" features his poems & drawings