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...

Akiane was just four years old when she made that bold announcement to her formerly faithless family.

Well-known together with lesser-known verses to the traditional Thanksgiving song are illustrated from both Grandmother's and the journeying family's point of view.

Well-known, short poems are illustrated by twelve different artists.

A series of poems reveal a young boy's relationship with his older brother.

A collection of poems about traditional celebrations of America's independence, describing picnics, fireworks, and bicycle parades.

Introduces some of the animals that live in tropical rain forests in illustrations and brief poems by a variety of poets.

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.