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192 pp.
| HarperCollins/Harper |
September, 2009 |
TradeISBN 978-0-06-190585-8$18.99
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LibraryISBN 978-0-06-190586-5$19.89 New ed. (1981)
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K-3
This edition, with gold-colored jacket, includes twelve new poems from Silverstein's archive. Like much of his other work, comical black-and-white line drawings are integral to the whole, as necessary for readers' enjoyment as the writing. Silverstein's poems can be, by turns, laugh-out-loud funny, macabre, or heartwarming. With the way they trip off the tongue, they beg to be read aloud. Ind.