Where the Sidewalk Ends

[vanbrusage]

Book #18
Book Title: Where the Sidewalk Ends (reread)
Author: Shel Silverstein
Category: ya fiction; humor; poetry
# of pages: 166
My rating of the book, F- [worst] to A [best].: B
Short description/summary of the book: (taken from amazon.com): 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.

My Thoughts:I really enjoyed this book but I think I honestly appreciated it more when I was a child myself. However, I will definitely be giving my future children this book so that they can enjoy it as much as I used to. :)

Books read this year: 18/50.

Pages read this year: 6887/15000

Next read(s): I am about to start Blood Rites by Jim Butcher. I am still also reading Angels & Demons by Dan Brown & The Power of a Praying Wife by Stormie OMartian.

Comments

[writerlibrarian]

This sound like an interesting young adult book. I'll go look it up.

[vanbrusage]

You definitely should! :)

[mmoa_writes]

Thanks for this post - I loved this book when I was a child and it certainly brings back some good memories. I have to track a copy down for myself, now...

[vanbrusage]

Haha! I need to reread his other books as well. Unfortunately, I don't own them. :/

[tangledaxon]

Wow, this brings back so many memories.

[vanbrusage]

I know right?

[ceria]

I really enjoyed this book but I think I honestly appreciated it more when I was a child myself. However, I will definitely be giving my future children this book so that they can enjoy it as much as I used to.

Yeah, that's my opinion as well. My daughter is 11 now and we bought it last year. It's truly enjoyable watching her read it or giggle over it while I read.

[vanbrusage]

It is a great book for kids to read about how their imaginations will take them anywhere. Its inspiring really! :)