shel-silverstein

  • WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS has a Place on Our Bookshelves

    Ten years after his children’s book The Giving Tree was published, Shel Silverstein’s editor Ursula Nordstrom (Harper & Row) convinced him to write a book of poetry. In 1974, Silverstein released Where the Sidewalk Ends, and dedicated it, “For Ursula.”  I am one of the… Continue reading

  • What The Giving Tree Gives

    The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein moved me the first time I read it and then it spoke to me every single time thereafter.  Shel Silverstein was a brilliant author and poet who understood children.   Our young children listened to this… Continue reading