Falling Up: Poems and Drawings

Another Great Silverstein Classic

I bought this book for my 10 year old daughter who is a poetry lover! She loves to read this book alone or out loud to her siblings. The poems are lightheard and silly...perfect for children and adults! This is a book that can be read over and over again and you will love it just the same :)

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Shel Silverstein never disapoints me. He is my favorite poet.
I love it because all of the poems are dorky and don't have to be for kids. Must read his poems.(:

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Falling Up Review

Falling up is a terrific book by Shel Silverstein. I liked falling up because of the pictures. Shel does not put a lot of work into his pictures. I like the pictures because they go along with the poems and the pictures are funny. Shel makes up a lot of cool characters and words. Some times his poems are hard to under stand. But they are still funny.
I can connect to the poem "The Runners" because my parents coach track so I like every thing about track. The poem "The Runners" is a funny poem because the coach is a lion. The players say they have a great practice field but they don't because they run on dirt, jump over ditches with spears popping out and have a lion coming behind them.
I do not like the poem "Long Scarf" because the boy slipped and tripped and his head got cut off. That just grosses me out. Then he put it back on. To keep his head on he wrapped the scarf around his neck. Then he took it off and his head came off with the scarf. EWWWW.
I like the poem "Yuck". I liked this poem because the yuck is like tar. Ont time I got tar on the bottom of my shoe it took FOREVER to get off. I tried to get it off with a stick but the stick got stuck on the bottom of my shoe.so I had to throw them away. This poem is so funny.

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One of the best books ever!

I think a few of the best poems are: Warm Hearted, Bad Cold, Danny O'dare, and Gardener. I chose these poems because they were very funny. I think all of the poems are funny but those were the best. I would recommend the book to all ages.

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Falling Up is a funny book. It has poems and drawings in i

Falling Up is a funny book. It has poems and drawings in it. Falling Up was a fun, easy, and interesting book. I would highly recommend this book for any age, it is a really good book. I honestly don't enjoy reading that much, but I thought that this was a fun book to read.

A book of short poems by Shel Silverstein. A classic for any chi

A book of short poems by Shel Silverstein. A classic for any child (or adult).

Fun book

I like the book because it is funny, weird, and scary. I will grade it with 4 stars out of 5 becuase some poems start good but they get very boring, they don't get you anywhere.

A Great Book!

Falling Up is the best poetry book ever! I think the best poem to me is OBEDIENT.It is my favorite poem, because it teaches you to obey the rules,and behave in class.I like this poetry book, because the drawings,and the titles are funny.Shel uses a bunch of mistakes in his poems,and that makes it weird.I hope you enjoy the book if you want to read it!!

Highly Recommended

This book was great to read. It had a lot of poems which made me laugh! The poems would keep you hooked on the book. The pictures were a great laugh as well. You've got to read this book!

This book is awesome!!

I loved reading Falling up. The poems are funny and a little weird. My favorite was Show Fish a poem about a boy who wanted to take a flounder to school for show and tell, but forgot and took it two weeks late for show and smell.

Read this book!!!!!!

I would suggest to read this book because it's filled with clever and unique poems, it's great for sense of humor, and it includes lots of creativity and imagination. My favorite poem was "In The Land Of...". Shel Silverstein is a fantastic poem writer. I'd like to read this book again.

Highly recommend it - very funny

I really enjoyed reading Falling Up by Shel Silverstein. My favorite poem was Snow Ball (pg. 11) which is about a child that makes a snowball and puts it to sleep with him. The next day he's all upset thinking the snowball went away and wet his bed. The book has funny poems just like this one. - Javier, 9

THIS IS A GREAT WRITER, I HAVE ALL HIS BOOKS

I LOVE THIS WRITER AND HIS BOOKS, HE DOES A GREAT JOB ENTERTAINING THE READER. I CAN'T WAIT TO READ THESE POEMS TO MY GRANDCHILDREN

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My Granddaughter really likes Shel Silverstein books just like her Daddy does.

Fun reading.

Review by Teddy

Review
Falling Up by Shel Silverstein

Falling Up is a great poetry book by Shel Silverstein that has great poems in it. Shel's gifted way of writing and drawing is amazing. Some of Shel's poems are stories and some are about life lessons. Some are hidden cleverly and some pop out at you.

In the poem, "Stone Airplane," he makes a airplane out of stone and he says, "I always did like staying home." That is ironic because if you make a plane out of stone you can't go anywhere. The one poem is, "They Say I Have .." "It says they say I have my mom's hair, my father's nose, and my grandpa's eyes. Could my behind be the only things that mine?" And in the picture they are sitting down. It made me think, do they all have butts?! Another poem is, "Long-Leg Lou And Short-Leg Sue." Long-Leg Lou asks Short-Leg Sue to walk faster. She can't so she leaves. Their is a story in that poem. Opposites don't attract.

My favorite poem is "Snowball." It is a funny poem. A kid brings a snowball home as a pet. He lets it sleep with him and he says, "It ran away but first I wet the bed." The snowball melted but he thinks it ran away and he wet the bed.

In the poem "Nope" he looks at a cantaloupe through a telescope and sees stuff that's gross and never eats cantaloupe again. At my dad's house I saw a bunch of ants on a tomato so I don't eat tomatoes ever.

Falling Up

When I read the book Falling Up by Shel Silverstein I thought that it was a humorous book especially for children. Shel uses his creative imagination to express fiction and fantasy-like poems that kids enjoy. Even though I am not a big fan of poetry I treasured this book and want to eventually go to the book store and buy a couple more of his books. Now I am on the lookout for his books in the book orders, at the library, and at book fairs. I like how Shel wrote poems about his children but didn't directly state their names. Sheldon used his children as fictional characters as if you don't even know he's talking about them. The other thing I like is that Sheldon doesn't tell about his kid's life in the poems like most authors do.
My favorite poem that Shel Silverstein wrote in Falling Up is "In the Land of.." I like this poem because I think that it is humorous. The poem states all different kinds of lands that you could live in like Listentoemholler, Wailinanweepin', Ragsanpatches, or Muglywugly. I would like to live in Wailinanweepin' because you work for free and get paid for sleeping. I love to sleep so that's why I would want to live in Wailinanweepin'. When I read this poem to my friends they all said that they would like to live in the same place that I would. One reason is because they all like to sleep like me and another reason is because they wanted to still be able to hang out with me.

Another poem that I thought was a well written poem by Shel Silverstein is Tell Me. I like this poem because when you read it to your friends it says for them to tell you that your clever, kind, talented, cute, sensitive, and wise but when you get down to the bottom I says tell me I'm perfect- but tell me the truth. So your friends are forced to say all these things about you and then at the end they get to say the truth. I've done it to all of my friends and now it's a big joke when we see each other either inside or outside of school.
A poem I can make a connection to the poem "My Sneaky Cousin" because in the poem it says that their cousin climbed in the washer and went for a spin and nobody could find him. I can make a connection to that because one time when we were playing hide-and-go-seek on vacation my cousin, Kyle, hid in the washer machine. Both my cousin, Allison, and I were rummaging all over the house looking for him. We couldn't find him until my little brother decided to let loose and tell us that he was in the washer. Then that was the end of our hide-and-seek game because there were no more spots to hide without my little brother ratting us out.
I have to say that when I read Falling Up by Shel Silverstein I was very thrilled by all the talent that Shel had when it came to writing poems. I did not know that before I read the book. I was very impresssed with the book overall.

Falling Up. about the book.

If I ever met Shel Silverstein I think he would be making up jokes and down to earth. This book, Fallin Up, is a fiction book but, to me I think he trys to make it sound so real, so non-fiction. Pretty much the whole book is fiction but, if you want it to be I guess it could be non-fiction if you put it that way.
Falling Up just happens to be my first poetry book I ever read. Except for those Dr. Suess books. I've read a lot of those. Back to the subject. Falling Up has a good vibe to it. They could have a okay funny starting but then end really funny and happy. That's what I like most about the book. I made a text to self connection with this one poem in the book. It is called The Mummy.
One day I was at my friends house and we were acting weird like usual. And we decided that we would make a video for just us. So we made an agreement to make a video on Egypt. And then we had to choose someone as our mummy. It turns out, it was me. They wrapped me in toilet paper and did what they did. In the video they called me a dummy. Instead of a mummy.
Other than that my favorite poem in the book would have to be Cookwitch Sandwitch. It would be my favorite because this boy didn't choose his words right and he said make me a sandwich and the cook witch made the boy himself a sandwich.

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Tis is a really good book with a funny part to almost every poem. Most of rthe poems tell about something that is totally ridicoulas or sominthing meant to be just funny. Most of the pictures in the book are very detailed and have a lot to do with the poem which are very funny and usually meant for fun. This book is mostly meant for fun and is recomended for readers who like a nice laugh

My review to Falling Up

Falling Up is one of those books that really captures you with its choice of words and meaning hidden behind each of the poems waiting to be solved. My favorite poem in this book was, ¿Remote a Dad.¿ This poem has a lot of humor and it would be cool to have a remote that could control your dad. I like how this poem¿s ending words don¿t rhyme but if you read it in a fun way, it makes you want to get up and dance. Well it made me want to, at least. Another poem I liked in this book was, ¿Diving Board.¿ The person gets up on the diving board and checks that it¿s safe. He makes sure it can stand his weight. He does everything but dive. When I was about five, I got up on a diving board but was too afraid it would collapse. So I checked every bit of it, to make sure it was safe to jump off. After about ten minutes of searching, I ended up getting off and not jumping anyway. When I read, ¿My Sneaky Cousin,¿ I didn¿t really understand it. At first, it sounded like the person knew what the washer was but later she ended up in it going around and around, not able to get out or stop it. I tried to get hints from the picture, but it still didn¿t help. Another poem I really enjoyed reading was, ¿Dancing in the Rain.¿ This poem reminds me of the rain and I feel as if it¿s really raining. Like the person in the poem, I love to dance in the rain. It¿s fun and so is this poem. I like how at the end of the poem is says, ¿I¿m waterproof.¿ It made me laugh and it seemed like the right ending for this poem. The picture Shel Silverstein drew was very funny too. It reminded me of the onetime my best friend¿s baby cousin took all his clothes off and ran around in the rain. It was really funny and so cute. What I really like about Shel Silverstein¿s poems¿ is that not all of them rhyme but the words seem to be the perfect choice. When you meet the people and characters in this book, you¿ll be sure to check out another book written by Silverstein, who will surely capture you into the wacky world of Mr. Sheldon Silverstein.

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All About Falling Up

Falling Up is a great book that will be loved forever and never forgotten. It was written by Shel Silverstein, an author that is known all around the world. Reading this book is a great way to help you start to write poems because Shel Silverstein has such a great way of using words that rhyme. Most of Shel¿s poems have life lessons in them that you need to look for to know what he is saying. While reading this book I could connect to the poem called ¿Advice¿. In this poem he used the name William and he talked about arrows. I can connect to this poem because during some scout trips we are able to shoot bow and arrows. Also, the name of the main character in the book is the same as mine. If Shel was still alive I would ask him some questions. One question is about his poems. Did he write them for humor or for life lessons? How did you come up with the poem ¿Snowball¿? The character thinks a snowball wets the bed. It is so funny. Did you write all your poems at once or did you create them throughout your whole life? In the book there were three really good poems called, ¿Plugging In¿, ¿Scale¿, and ¿Falling Up¿. These poems were good because they were funny and one had a lesson in it. The lesson in ¿Plugging In¿ is that if you have too many electrical toys and appliances your electric could go off and you would not have it for your needs like heat and hot water. The book had other poems that were good but I thought those were some of the best. There was one poem that was out of this world. It was called ¿Snowball¿. This was my favorite poem because it was the funniest in the whole book. It is funny because the character thinks that a snowball wets her bed then runs away. Snowballs don¿t run away or wet beds. They melt so it is not there and there is a wet spot. Falling Up is a book that is good for everyone. If you like funny poems this book is for you. If you like poems with life lessons this book is for you. If you like books with different kinds of poems in it this book is for you.