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Millie McDeevit screamed a scream So loud it made her eyebrows steam.
She screamed so loud Her jawbone broke,
Her tongue caught fire,
Her nostrils smoked...

Poor Screamin' Millie is just one of the unforgettable characters in this wondrous new book of poems and drawings by the creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic. Here you will also meet Allison Beals and her twenty-five eels; Danny O'Dare, the dancin' bear; the Human Balloon; and Headphone Harold.

So come, wander through the Nose Garden, ride ...

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Overview

Millie McDeevit screamed a scream So loud it made her eyebrows steam.
She screamed so loud Her jawbone broke,
Her tongue caught fire,
Her nostrils smoked...

Poor Screamin' Millie is just one of the unforgettable characters in this wondrous new book of poems and drawings by the creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic. Here you will also meet Allison Beals and her twenty-five eels; Danny O'Dare, the dancin' bear; the Human Balloon; and Headphone Harold.

So come, wander through the Nose Garden, ride the Little Hoarse, eat in the Strange Restaurant, and let the magic of Shel Silverstein open your eyes and tickle your mind.

A collection of humorous poems and drawings.

Editorial Reviews

Publishers Weekly
All the things that children loved about A Light in the Attic and Where the Sidewalk Ends can be found in abundance in this eclectic volume, Silverstein's first book of poetry in 20 years. By turns cheeky and clever and often darkly subversive, the poems are vintage Silverstein, presented in a black-and-white format that duplicates his earlier books. Like Roald Dahl, Silverstein's cartoons and poems are humorously seditious, often giving voice to a child's desire to be empowered or to retaliate for perceived injustice: one child character wields a "Remote-a-Dad" that will instantly control his father, and another dreams of his teachers becoming his students so that when they talk or laugh in class, he can "pinch 'em 'til they [cry]." The poems focus on the unexpected-a piglet receives a "people-back ride" and Medusa's snake-hair argues about whether to be coifed in cornrows or bangs. Sometimes the art traffics in gross-out, as when William Tell gets an arrow through his forehead or a cartoon character sticks carrots in his sockets because he's heard that carrots are good for his eyes. Although some parents and teachers may cringe at such touches, Silverstein's anti-establishment humor percolates as he lampoons conventions (the stork not only brings babies but "comes and gets the older folks/ When it's their time to go"), or discards decorum (a small gardener zips up his pants after watering the plants "that way"). No matter that the author's rhythms and rhymes can be sloppy, or that his annoying insistence on leavin' off the endin' to his ING's seems artificially folksy, Silverstein's ability to see the world from, as he says, "a different angle" will undoubtedly earn this book a wide audience. All ages. (May)
Children's Literature
It's been my experience that, Mother Goose aside, most kids don't like poetry. But if you're looking for something that will bring out the poetry lover in your child, this is it. These poems-delightfully accompanied by whimsical illustrations-expose children's inner world in the same penetratingly precise way as Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are. Plus, there's humor: a (former) destruction foreman who loses his job because he destroys the wrong house. Then there are the puns: a gardener whose garden is filled with rows of noses instead of rows of roses. And finally there is confusion: a short child who was told he'd grow a foot imagines himself with an extra foot protruding from the top of his head.
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Children's Literature
Children's favorite poet, Shel Silverstein publishes a new poetry collection, Falling Up. Silverstein combines word play, his uncanny sense of what pleases children, with startling last lines, irreverent humor; and sounds that beg to read aloud. Our book now opens automatically to our favorite because it's been read so many times. "Hard to Please (To be said in one breath)" is a long list of common complaints about friends. There's challenge in the reading, fun in discussing all those annoying types ("Tiny is whiney, /Missy is prissy, /Nicky is picky") admiration for interior rhyme and the laughter it brings whether one runs out of breath or not. This book is guaranteed to please every child reader and most adults too!
School Library Journal
Gr 3 UpFifteen years after A Light in the Attic (1981) and 22 years after Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974, both HarperCollins), Silverstein, whose poetry has achieved cultlike popularity, offers readers another collection. While bodily functions seem to be the source of humor in more poems than in the earlier titles, and while there are fewer wonderful images here, the child appeal is as strong as ever. Once again, Silverstein's pen-and-ink drawings are the perfect accompaniment to the poems, always extending and often explaining the words. The book abounds in energetic wordplay ("I saw an ol' gnome/Take a gknock at a gnat/Who was gnibbling the gnose of his gnu") and childlike silliness ("I only ate one drumstick/At the picnic dance this summer...But everybody's mad at me,/Especially the drummer"). Silverstein writes wonderful nonsense verse, but he has used rhyme and rhythm to greater effect in the past. There is much to love in Falling Up, but it has its ups and downs.Kathleen Whalin, Greenwich Country Day School, CT
Kirkus Reviews
Well, finally. In this long-overdue follow-up to A Light In The Attic (1981), Silverstein once again displays the talent for wordplay and idea-play that keeps his poetry evergreen. In bumptious verse that seldom runs more than three or four stanzas, he introduces a gallery of daffy characters, including the Terrible Toy-Eating Tookle, a hamburger named James, blissfully oblivious Headphone Harold, and the so-attractive folk attending the "Rotten Convention"—"Mr. Mud and the Creepin' Crud/And the Drooler and Belchin' Bob," to name but a few. The humor has become more alimentary with the years, but the lively, deceptively simple art hasn't changed a bit. Its puzzled-looking young people (with an occasional monster or grimacing grown-up thrown in) provide visual punchlines and make silly situations explicit; a short ten-year-old "grows another foot"—from the top of his head—and a worried child is assured that there's no mouse in her hair (it's an elephant). Readers chortling their way through this inspired assemblage of cautionary tales, verbal hijinks, and thoughtful observations, deftly inserted, will find the temptation to read parts of it aloud irresistible.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780060248024
  • Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
  • Publication date: 4/28/1996
  • Pages: 184
  • Sales rank: 16,078
  • Age range: 5 - 7 Years
  • Lexile: NPL (what's this?)
  • Product dimensions: 8.98 (w) x 6.94 (h) x 0.96 (d)

Meet the Author

Shel Silverstein
Shel Silverstein

Shel Silverstein is the author-artist of many beloved books of prose and poetry. He was a cartoonist, playwright, poet, performer, recording artist, and Grammy-winning, Oscar-nominated songwriter.

Biography

If there is such a thing as a "bad boy of children's literature," it would have to be Shel Silverstein. Though often compared to Dr. Seuss for his ability to blend humor and nonsense into irresistible rhymes, Silverstein also ventured into macabre territory that the good Doctor wouldn't have touched with a ten-foot Sneetch. Silverstein broached such unsavory topics as nose-picking, the consumption of children, and winds so strong they could decapitate a man right out from under his hat.

It's a testament to Silverstein's abilities as a cartoonist and storyteller that he was able to endow such subjects with just the right silliness and humor, endearing him to both children and adults. In collections such as the classic Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, and Falling Up, Silverstein makes poems into page-turners -- aided in no small part by his grungy, whimsical black-and-white drawings. He also displays a tenderhearted understanding for kids' fears and peccadilloes; one poem in A Light in the Attic, for example, all but endorses nailbiting: "It's a nasty habit, but ... I have never ever scratched a single soul."

A lifelong writer and illustrator, Silverstein had been a cartoonist for an army newspaper in Korea in the 1950s, and then a contributor to magazines. Like many succesful writers for children, Silverstein never planned to author children's books. Ironically, his first attempt at the genre -- the book that established the one-time Playboy cartoonist as a school library fixture -- is something of an anomaly in his ouevre: The Giving Tree. This bittersweet story of a tree that ultimately sacrifices itself -- down to the stump -- to the boy she loves over the course of his life was initially rejected by Silverstein's editor. Of course, it has gone on to be a great, if sentimental, success. But it was Where the Sidewalk Ends, Silverstein's straightforward collection of crooked poems, that cemented his place as a must-read for the young and young at heart. Silverstein bristled at comparisons to fellow "nonsense poet" Edward Lear, preferring instead to cite his former teacher, Robert Cosbey, as an influence.

It's worth looking at some of Silverstein's less well-known picture books, such as Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros? and Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back, as examples of how funny (and how subversive) Silverstein could be. In Lafcadio, the ultimate anti-hunting story, a lion learns to become such a good marksman that he provides "hunter rugs" for his fellow lions and ends up touring as a celebrity. Lafcadio soon gets bored with his opulent life, and what used to be thrilling no longer is: "This morning I went up and down in the elevator 1,423 times," he cries at one point. "IT'S OLD STUFF!"

In later years, Silverstein turned more attention to dramatic writing. Titles such as The Lady and the Tiger, Wild Life and The Devil and Billy Markham were produced with varying degrees of success, and some are still being staged by small theater groups. Silverstein also wrote a well-received screenplay, Things Change, with pal David Mamet in 1988.

Still, Silverstein's poetry is what remains his most popular contribution. His verse gave kids permission to be a little grown-up for a while, and (just as importantly) let adults experience the not-always-simple perspective of children.

Good To Know

Silverstein was a soldier in the U.S. Army in Japan and Korea in the '50s and drew cartoons for Stars and Stripes, the American military publication. His next cartooning gig was for Playboy.

Silverstein wrote several songs. His country-western song "A Boy Named Sue" was a hit for Johnny Cash in 1969. His song for Postcards From the Edge, "I'm Checkin' Out," was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe.

    1. Also Known As:
      Sheldon Allan Silverstein (full name)
      Shel Silverstein
    1. Date of Birth:
      September 25, 1930
    2. Place of Birth:
      Chicago, Illinois
    1. Date of Death:
      May 10, 1999
    2. Place of Death:
      Key West, Florida

Read an Excerpt

The Toy Eater
You don't have to pick up your toys, okay?
You can leave 'em right there on the floor,
So tonight when the Terrible Toy-Eatin' Tookly
Comes tiptoein' in through the crack in the door,
He'll crunch all your soldiers, he'll munch on your trucks,
He'll chew your poor puppets to shreds,
He'll swallow your Big Wheel and slurp up your paints
And bite off your dear dollies' heads.
Then he'll wipe off his lips with the sails of your ship,
And making a burpity noise,
He'll slither away -- but hey, that's okay,
You don't have to pick up your toys.
From FALLING UP by Shel Silverstein c 1996 by Shel Silverstein. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

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  • Posted April 8, 2010

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    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 :)

    2 out of 3 people found this review helpful.

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  • Posted January 2, 2011

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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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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 4, 2010

    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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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 2, 2011

    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.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 2, 2011

    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!!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 2, 2011

    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!

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  • Posted June 2, 2011

    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.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 21, 2011

    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.

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  • Posted May 20, 2011

    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

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  • Posted May 10, 2010

    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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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 19, 2009

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

    Fun reading.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 28, 2009

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    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.

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  • Posted April 21, 2009

    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.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 5, 2009

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    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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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 30, 2008

    falling up

    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

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 22, 2008

    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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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 9, 2008

    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.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 10, 2007

    this book rocks

    Review of Falling Up The book falling up has many different poems. All of the poems are interesting. My favorite poem was ¿Noise Day.¿ Some of the other poems that were in the book were ¿Tattooin¿ Ruth¿, ¿Needles and Pins¿, ¿Ice Cream Stop¿, and ¿Screamin¿ Mille.¿ The author o f this book is Shel Silverstein. Shel was an amazing author. Because Shel s such an amazing author, out of all of the books that I have read that were his, I can not even cho0se a favorite book. Shel Silverstein is my favorite poet and he is just really good at what he does. My favorite poem was ¿Noise Day.¿ This poem is about kids having a day to them to make as much noise as they want. The poem also tells you that it would be very annoying in everyday were a noise day. My text-to-world/book connection is in the poem ¿Tattooin¿ Ruth.¿ In Guinness Book of World Records there was a guy who tattooed his whole body in leopard print tattoos. The guy in the poem had tattoos all over his body with a suit tattoo so that he wouldn¿t have to wear a suit.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 25, 2006

    Best Book Ever

    This is one if my fave. books ever. I love his books.I could read these peoms over and over again. This is my fave. from him but his other books were good to.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 28, 2006

    Falling Up

    Poetry, This book has over 125 poems. All of them are fun appealing and humorous. The majority poems have drawings and rhyme. The poems are ideal for kids of all ages. My personal favorite poem is called 'Danny O¿Daire '. I like it for two reasons. The first is its funny a story. Next is it has great Illustrations. This is a great book filled with poems and stories for children. I recommend this book to all people interested in poems and funny things. Shel Silverstein was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. He was a writer of books and songs. He died May 10, 1999 in Key West, Florida. Bibliography Silverstein, Shel. Falling Up. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1996.

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