Where the Sidewalk Ends

By: Shel Silverstein

Published by HarperCollins, 1974-11-20

<i>If you are a dreamer, come in,<br> If you are a dreamer,<br> A wisher, a liar,<br> A hope-er, a pray-er,<br> A magic bean buyer …</i><p> Come in … for where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein’s world begins. You’ll meet a boy who turns into a TV set, and a girl who eats a whale. The Unicorn and the Bloath live there, and so does Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout who will not take the garbage out. It is a place where you wash your shadow and plant diamond gardens, a place where shoes fly, sisters are auctioned off, and crocodiles go to the dentist. <p> Shel Silverstein’s masterful collection of poems and drawings is at once outrageously funny and profound. <p>