![]() Another posthumous release, and only very recently, is Everything On It – again combining over 100 poems with delightful drawings. In 2005, Runny Babbit: a Billy Sook, was released – apparently Silverstein had been creating this collection of spoonerisms for over 20 years. Leaving behind an astounding legacy of words, written, sung, and performed in theatres, Shel Silverstein died in 1999. ![]() Silverstein began his creative life as a cartoonist and only well into that career began to add writing for children. While the words captivate and amuse in his written collections, the charming illustrations are just as entertaining. Award nominations came his way for writing chart-topping songs like A Boy Named Sue and The Unicorn (bet you know the words yourself to those classics!) as well as many other more serious ones performed by musicians like Johnny Cash, Loretta Lynn, Marianne Faithfull, and Peter, Paul & Mary. Collections of his poetry, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up and A Light in The Attic, are nostalgic favourites of several generations now. Shel Silverstein is an icon of the written word – poetic, lyrical or prosaic. ![]()
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