Although Shel Silverstein (1930-1999) did not intend to become a children's writer, he is best known for his poetry for children. The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends, and A Light in the Attic are...
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Upon Shel Silverstein's death from a heart attack in 1999, his long-time editor at HarperCollins, Robert Warren, noted in a Publishers Weekly obituary that the poet, illustrator, playwright, songwrite...
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In the following review of Silverstein's book The Missing Piece Meets the Big O, Collins comments on the moral message of the story.
This [The Missing Piece Meets the Big O] is a funny, ephe...
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In the following obituary, Barnes praises Silverstein as “one of the world's best-loved and widely read children's authors.”
Shel Silverstein, 66, an author, artist, poe...
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In the following essay, Rosenfeld discusses the popularity of Silverstein's books among children.
Capitol Hill Day School, where my daughter goes to school, held its annual Poetry Night a fe...
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In the following obituary, Publishers Weekly provides a brief overview of Silverstein's career.
Poet, songwriter, recording artist and cartoonist Shel Silverstein died of a heart attack on M...
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In the following review of the theatrical production “An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein,” Isherwood criticizes the series of one-act plays as tiresome, dated, tasteless, feeble, and l...
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In the following review of Silverstein's one-act play “Gorilla,” the reviewer praises the work as a “savagely wry tragicomedy.”
Every playwright seems to have an ...
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In the following essay, MacDonald discusses the commercial and popular success of Silverstein's books of poetry for children.
Poetry for children has long been one of the great unexplored a...
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In the following review of the theatrical double-bill Oh, Hell, Kirkpatrick describes Silverstein's one-act play The Devil and Billy Markham as a witty one-man show in verse, performed as an ex...
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In the following review of the theatrical double-bill Oh, Hell, the reviewer criticizes Silverstein's one-act play The Devil and Billy Markham as silly, tedious, underdeveloped, and juvenile.
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In the following review of the theatrical double-bill Oh, Hell, Kramer observes that both Silverstein's The Devil and Billy Markham and David Mamet's Bobby Gould in Hell explore man�...
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In the following essay, Brustein chronicles the themes of guilt and redemption in The Devil and Billy Markham and criticizes the play for lacking variation in both tone and verse.
Lincoln Center Th...
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Did you ever hear the song, "A Boy Named Sue," and wondered how could someone come up with those lyrics? Have you ever read The Giving Tree? If you have, you know some of Shel Silverstein's works. ...
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Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends
In this week's New York magazine, culture editor Emily Nussbaum wrote about UrbanBaby.com, the online playpen for lonely, drunk, angry, scared, and fun-l...
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Kris Kristofferson, who has written some of country music's most enduring hits, will receive CMT's Johnny Cash Visionary Award, the cable network announced Monday.Rosanne Cash, Cash's daughter, wil...
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Portraits in the school's library are not of U.S. presidents but Hawaiian royalty, from King Kamehameha to Princess Ka'iulani. Near the classroom door rubber slippers are tidily lined up by the stu...
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The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss. W.W. Norton, 252 pages, $23.95.There was a little girl,
Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good,
She was very good i...
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