Central Kansas Library System

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...

In a child's imagination, animals do wacky things, including ducks riding bikes, yaks skiing, and fish eating bagels.

A collection of poems celebrates growing up, from learning new skills and going new places to holding a new sibling and getting big-kid teeth.

Humorous verses are added to traditional Mother Goose rhymes.

The story of Emma Lazarus, who, despite her life of privilege, became a tireless advocate for the immigrants who arrived in New York City in the 1880s and wrote a famous poem for the Statue of Liberty.