Where the Sidewalk Ends: Poems and Drawings

review of where the sidewalk ends

A famous book written by a great American poet, Where the Sidewalk Ends, by Shel Silverstein. This is one of the greatest poetry books by this great author. Humorus, entertaining, and silly can be used as great adjectives to describe this book. 'Smart' is one of the most hilarious poems in this book. A boy recieves one dollar from his dad and then he trades the dollar for two quarters because the boy figures that 2 is more then 1. It keeps going on until the boy has 5 pennies. This poem is also my favorite poem in the book This would be a text to text because all of Shel's other books have different poems, but it still gives out the humorous expression like it does in all of Shel's funny poetry books. 'Paul Bunyan' is another great poem from this book. Paul was the toughest lumberjack around that had fists as hard as chopping blocks. When he got older he decided to lay down and die to see what trees there were in heaven, but there wasnt any so Paul comes back and decides to go down to the Devil to see if there is trees there. This book would also be a text to self because for me the poem 'The Long Haired Boy' would fit me because i have long hair just like the boy did in the poem, but i can't use my hair to fly away liek the boy in the poem did! 'Hector the Collector' is a poem in the book about a boy named hector who collects old trash like rusted knives and so on. Hector thoguht that his collection was so great that everybody should see it but when the people came, they all called it junk because there wasn't anything good. This book could be a text to world because some people do hilarious things that are described in the book like try to sell their siblings like in the poem, 'For Sale'. If you are bored one day and you want a funny book to read, i'd reccomend that you read Shel Silverstein's book, 'Where the Sidewalk Ends'!

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This book was great!

This book was great! I think that Shel Silverstein used lots of detail. He has a great imagination and a great sense of humor. His poems are all funny! My favorite poem was My Beard because it was about a guy that has a long beard and never wears any clothes. I recommend for everyone to read this book because the poems were delightful!

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A great book of poems-

This book is so great. I remember it from my childhood and have read it to my children. What a talent Shel Silversteen was and how I enjoy his fun poems. Poems about Swinging from your knees on a flying trapeeze and HugO war, one of my favorites is Lazy Jane and The Boa Constrictor! The tree house is a good one too and I actually put together a book of these poems when my sister got married because it reminded me of growing up. If you have children (or if not) you will be entertained by these poems! Highly recommended.

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Wicked Sweet!!

This is the type of book you don't forget! This book is pretty good. They're many funny poems in this book. Some may not make sense, but that's the funny part. I would definately reccommend this book, and other books by Shel Silverstein.

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Where the Sidewalk Ends is a poetry book by the author of Shel

Where the Sidewalk Ends is a poetry book by the author of Shel Silverstein. Where the Sidewalk Ends is made up of miscellaneous poems from “Merry ...” (about decorating for Christmas in March) to “Where the Sidewalk Ends” ( about moving away from the busyness of the city and relax). The mood of the book is cheerful since the book has many poems about happiness and similar themes. The pictures relate to the poems and help to understand the poems better. The book is also random like a poem about a man running around with a huge bead as underwear. 
One of my favorite poems is “Sick”. “Sick” is about someone that has all kinds of diseases and injuries and is magically cured when told it is Saturday. “Sick” says diseases from chickenpox to “having a hole in your ear” This poem’s seems to appeal to the side of you that is, “I’ll do it tomorrow”. “Sick” is a hilarious poem and my favorite. 
Another poem was called “The Generals”. “ The Generals” is about General Clay and General Gore wondering why they are in the war and decide to go to the beach.  While on the way to the beach, they think the worst that the beach will be closed and they might drown from the spray of the ocean. So they decided to go on with the war and they both kill each other. The main reason I like it is because they decide to have a fun time, then they decide to kill each other because they are worried the sand has been blown away.
One more great poem is called, “If the World was Crazy”. “If the World was Crazy” is someone saying what they would do if the world was crazy. From eating a slice of soup, to saying good bye instead of hello. So this poem was extremely random like flying through the ground. This poem really was funny to find out what the next wacky thing on the page would be.
The last poem I enjoyed was, “The Garden”. “The Garden” is about old man Simon planting a diamond and it sprouting into many different plants that grow different gems, minerals and ores. At the end of the poem old man Simon dreams of a real peach. “The Garden” reminds me of “Jack and the Beanstalk”, a person plants something and they get rich from it. This reminds me that you have to work to get riches, Simon had to wait for the riches to “grow”, so he had to work at it by taking care of the plants.
Over all Where the Sidewalk Ends is a very funny and good book. The illustrations are funny and explain what the poems are about. The overall character of the book is childish and funny.  Shel Silverstein overall did an amazing job on the book.

Exceptional!!

A very entertaining book of poems. A nice change of pace for my granddaughter. She loves it.

A necessary part of your book collection!

My 7-year old is loving these poems, and she will for years to come.

Reminds me of me

True Story was my favorite peom in this book because it is very funny. The boy in the poem has a great imagination. It sounds like something I would make up so I wouldn't get in trouble for being gone all day long!

Funny Poem Books!!

this is a funny poem book. my favorite poem in this book is SICK. read this poem book to find out what happends :)

Super Cute

An overall great read for children of all ages!

Loved it as a child

I grew up on Shel Silverstein books and loved them, and now I've been able to read them to my son, and he just gets the biggest kick out of them. They are definitely a good buy, totally worth the money.

BEST EVER

This is the best book I have every owned hands down. It has been on my bookshelf for practically 20 years and I still open it. Fantastic. I would also like to thank my mother for the greatest book/gift ever!

Holly

Where the side walk ends~ Review

Where the Side Walk Ends is an astonishing, well written book by Shel Silverstein. The books "Hooks" people on reading because of its fun way of poetry and its variety of genres (Including fiction, realistic fiction, and nonfiction). Also there are hidden messages in the poems teaching people life lessons, in an amusing and waggish way.

My favorite poem is "Sick". I liked this poem because it is an entertaining poem teaching you a life lesson that karma will come back at you. How it shows that is it says Peggy can't go to school today because she has all kinds of sicknesses, but then she realizes it's Saturday her parents found out she lied because she said that now she can go out to play.

In the poem "For Sale" I connected to the boy who is selling his sister. I connected to him because I would like to sell my sister too. Also he calls her a crying and spying young sister, which describes my sister exactly. That's how I connected to the boy.

In the poem "Merry..." in the beginning of the poem it is saying that there is no Christmas spirit. Then when its going at the very end of the poem it says that the reason why there isn't any Christmas spirit is because it is March twenty-fifth.
The poem "Joey" is about a boy who throws a stone into the sun which makes the sun die out and everything is dark. Also I like this poem because this poem uses lots of interjections for example~ WHOOSH!, BLOOMP!, and GLUNK! That's what the poem "Joey" is about.

I defiantly recommend reading this book because it is by the wonderful Shel Silverstein and because it is almost impossible to put down. This concludes my review and I hope you liked it.

My Review

Where the Sidewalk Ends is an awesome book for kids and adults. Shel used a lot of his imagination and creativity to write this book. I thought this book was hilarious and taught some valuable life lessons that kids should know. Almost all the poems made you think more on that subject. Some of the poems were downright funny and others were tearful. My whole family loved this book and everyone I ask, says that they really enjoyed this book. Shel is an amazing person to me. One of the poems that I enjoyed was ¿The Fourth¿. That poem made me laugh because when the kid was trying to say ¿Oh my, it¿s the Fourth of July¿, the fireworks would explode and interrupt him, so he had to wait until the noise faded away and it sounded funny. When the fireworks exploded the child in the poem was saying something and had to wait until the noise faded away. I had a text to self-connection about the poem called ¿The Fourth¿. I enjoy watching fireworks, but it is so hard to talk to someone while they are going off. You always have to scream for someone to hear you. Another poem that I enjoyed reading was ¿Band-Aids¿. The boy put band-aids everywhere he could, but he did not have any cuts or sores. It was a very funny poem to me because if I have a tiny cut I will use a band-aid. Sometimes I even put a band-aid on if I do not have a cut am like the boy in this poem. My mom always says that I overreact with cuts. I really enjoyed was ¿Ickle Me, Pickle Me, Tickle Me Too¿. I loved how all the lines rhymed. I thought Shel was very creative when writing this poem. It was very ingenious how Ickle, Pickle, and Tickle went for a ride in a flying shoe. If you like to read poems that rhyme and are funny, you have to read this poem. My favorite poem in the book Where the Sidewalk Ends is ¿Sick¿. I enjoyed this poem because it reminded me of something I would do. I sometimes don¿t ¿feel well¿ to get out of doing a chore. The girl in this poem pretends to be sick but she does not know that it is Saturday. At the end of the poem, she says I am going out to play. My mom really enjoyed this poem when I read it to her. She loved the way I performed this poem and all my facial expressions. Where the Sidewalk Ends is my favorite poetry book to read. I loved the illustrations that went along with the poems. They helped me with visual so I became a part of the book. You have to read this book. This book was so hard to put down and I could not stop reading it.

Outstanding

This book I read, Where the Sidewalk ends is a really good book by Shel Silverstein. I don¿t read a lot of poems but, I think it is one of the best poetry book I ever read because some poems it teaches life lessons, some are really funny, some are just very creative. My favorite poem is Where the sidewalk Ends. This is my favorite poem because his style and his figurative is terrific. The way he describes things makes me feel like I am in the book at that scene. I can draw an image in my mind when he wrote, And there the grass grows soft and white, and there the sun burns crimson bight. Another line is, and there the moon-bird rests from his flight, to cool in the peppermint wind. This makes me feel like it is there right in font of me how describes the sun burning and the bird resting in the wind from it¿s flight. In the second stanza it read Let us leave this place where the smoke blows black And the dark street winds and bends. Past the pits where the asphalt flowers grow We shall walk with a walk that is measured and slow, And watch where the chalk-white arrows go To a place where the sidewalk ends. I can see what he is writing and how he uses rhyming in the lines. That is the reason this is my favorite poem in the book. I could make a text to self connection in the poem SMART on page35. In this poem it talks about how this kid¿s dad gives him a dollar. He goes out to all these other people and exchange it for something worth less but is more. He swapped the dollar for two quarters because he said two is more than one. He went to his friend Lou and traded two quarters for three dimes because three is more than two. He does this until he ends up with 5 pennies because five is greater than all the other number of coins he had. I was laughing so hard, but I can make a connection. I remember when I was little I use to think that the more coins was worth more but it can be less. This also teaches a life lesson because it does not mean the more stuff you have the more it is worth, like 5 pennies to 1 dollar because 5 is more than one for example. That is how I can make a text to self connection with one of the poems in this book. In the poem Sarah Cynthia Stout Would Not Take The Garbage Out on page 71 there was a moral. It is about this girl who never takes the garbage out. It got full of all these things but she would not take the garbage out. It filled the can and it covered the floor. Then it raised the roof, it broke the wall. At last it got so high it reached the sky. All her neighbors moved away and none of her friends would come to play. It reached across the state then she decided to take the garbage out but it was too late. I think the moral is when you need to do something, like take the garbage out you need to do it right away before it is too late. Shel Silverstein was trying to tell kids to take the garbage out because at the end it said, but children remember Sarah Stout and always take the garbage out. That is the moral of Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out. In conclusion that is my review on the book Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silversten. I think this is a very good book, it has life lessons, morals and some poems are very funny.

Absolutely LOVE It :)

Shel Silverstein, also known as Uncle Shelby, was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois. Shel was an American poet, cartoonist, screenwriter, and author of children¿s book. Shel Silverstein was the kind of person who didn¿t really care to play by the rules but he want to leave a couple of words for people to be inspired by, ¿I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick up one and experience a personal sense of discovery. That's great. But for them, not for me. I think that if you're creative person, you should just go about your business, do your work and not care about how it's received. I never read reviews because if you believe the good ones you have to believe the bad ones too. Not that I don't care about success. I do, but only because it lets me do what I want. I was always prepared for success but that means that I have to be prepared for failure too. I have an ego, I have ideas, I want to be articulate, to communicate but in my own way. People who say they create only for themselves and don't care if they are published...I hate to hear talk like that. If it's good, it's too good not to share. That's the way I feel about my work. So I'll keep on communicating, but only my way.¿ In 1974, Silverstein wrote the book Where the Sidewalk Ends. His book won some awards that included New York Times Outstanding Book Award in 1974 and the Michigan Young Readers¿ Award in 1981. Where the Sidewalk Ends is a book full of different collections of poems. The reading level of the book is fourth grade, zero month. There is a wide range of themes throughout the book so it would be hard to select one major theme. The genre of the book is poetry. My favorite poem of all time is written by Shel Silverstein, it is called ¿Invitation.¿ In the book, it states: If you are a dreamer, come in, If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer¿ If you¿re a pretender, come sit by my fire For we have some flax-golden tales to spin. Come in! Come in! My second and third grade teacher would read this poem every time she wanted us to have a sit on the rug and read a story to us. I could sit and read Shel Silverstein all day and never get tired of reading it. It is just that powerful. I love this book and I would recommend it to anyone. I would definitely suggest to teachers that they should read it to their class. Silverstein, Shel. Where the Sidewalk Ends. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1974.

It Doesn't Stop . . .

I am a lover of poems,so you know that I enjoyed this S.S. book of poetry.Honestly,these are some of the neatest poems I have ever read.There won't ever be a poetry writer as good as Shel,unless it's me:)

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The side walk ends

This amazing book by Shel Silverstein called ¿Where the sidewalks ends¿ was a very good book. There are a lot of characters in this book. Characters that resembles of people in a everyday life. The book is about all these funny characters. A girl thinks it¿s a Friday and she doesn¿t want to go to school. She comes up with all these excusies to try to get out of school. Until she finds out its Saturday and says ¿Oh I¿m going out side to play¿. Another story was how a brother is trying to sell his sister and its so funny that it would make you laugh. One poem that I disliked was the first poem in the whole book. I didn¿t understand what the poem was about. It¿s called the ¿The invitation¿. Its about a person asking you to come but doesn¿t say where.The whole book makes you want to laugh. Some of the poems make you think of yourself. It was a very good book . Whan Im at home I read it in bed and I sometimes read it in study hall. So when I¿m bored I read this wonder book that makes me laugh. I think you should read this book because you would love it . I would recommend this book to the kids in the hospital because they are so lonely there and they should have something that can make them smile. This book can make anyone smile including you.

Funny Poems

The book Where The Side Walk Ends is one of Shell Silverstien¿s best and funniest books. One of my favorite poems is ¿Jimmy jet and his TV set.¿ In this poem Jimmy watches TV all day, eventually he turns into a TV and his family watch him. Another funny poem is ¿Sister For Sale.¿ This is funny because this kid is trying to auction off his sister. This book is very fun. One thing that makes this fun is all the funny poems. Some of these funny poems include ¿Warning¿, ¿Sister For Sale¿, and ¿Peanut Butter Sandwich¿. In the poem ¿Warning¿ the man sticks his finger in his nose ad says something is eating it. I think this book is for people who like poems. This is not a good book for young people because it gives people bad ideas. One example of a bad idea is the kid tries to sell his sister in the poem ¿Sister For Sale¿. Another example of bad ideas in the poem ¿Jimmy Jet And His TV Set¿ Jimmy watches TV so much he turns into one. That is what makes this book so good.

This is great book!!!!!!

This book is the best. I have loved it as long as I can remember. The poem Sick is one of my favorites. When I was really young I memorized it and to this day I still remember it. All of my older brothers had this book and so do I. My 2 year old son already had some of Shel Silverstein's book and he loves getting them read to him.