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A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters in a collection of humorous poetry illustrated with the author's own drawings. Come in - for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. 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...

A collection of twenty whimsical poems about comets, the stars, moon, and the planets.

A collection of sixteen humorous poems about such strange creatures as the stardine, slobster, and magpipe.

Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class studies poetry and her students write haiku, couplets, free verse, and finally, a tribute to Mrs. Pidgeon's mother organized by the irrepressible Gooney Bird Greene.

The smart Mr. Fox uses his difficult tongue twisters to get the confused Mr. Know in trouble with his tongue.

"Using original slave auction and plantation estate documents, contrasts the monetary value of a slave with the priceless value of life experiences and dreams that a slave owner could never take away"--

Includes three humorous stories in verse: Yertle the Turtle, Gertrude McFuzz, and The Big Brag.

Rhyming text and illustrations of comical cats present numerous examples of adjectives, from "hairy, scary, cool, and ordinary" to "tan and tall", "funny, frisky, smooth, and small."

"A stirring poetic tribute to the beauty and wonder of America's symbols, history, landscape"--

On Valentine's Day, Gilbert brings a tin of homemade cookies and his original nice or nasty poems to school.