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Gr 4 Up—Silverstein pushes playful poesy to its limits with drawings that are as strange and wonderful as the artist's earlier collections. The title selection, a list poem imagining a hot dog with literally "everything on it," is an apt metaphor for this posthumous collection of new work that includes poems, riddles, surprise endings, poems of creature foibles and fables, wry social commentary, and,...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

Posthumously published works are sometimes weak, but this collection of 140-plus poems is every bit as good as Silverstein's earlier poetry collections, beginning with the now-classic Where the Sidewalk Ends (rev. 4/75). From the poem whose illustration graces the cover—in which a doleful-looking person holds a hotdog with everything on it, including "a parrot, / A bee in a bonnet," and other items piled high—to a final poem th...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

This posthumously published volume of 140-plus poems is every bit as good as Silverstein's earlier collections. The book is not just lau...Log In or Sign Up to Read More