In this collection, Shel invited children to dream and dare to imagine the impossible, from a hippopotamus sandwich to the longest nose in the world. His recording of the poems won him a Grammy for best Children's Album. Shel's second collection of poems and drawings, Where the Sidewalk Ends, was published in 1974. It combined his unique imagination and bold brand of humor in this collection of silly and scary creatures. The third book in 1964 was Uncle Shelby's Zoo Don't Bump the Glump! and Other Fantasies, Shel's first poetry collection, and his first and only book illustrated in full color. Shel returned to humor the same year with A Giraffe and a Half, delighting readers with a most riotous ending. The first of them, The Giving Tree, is a moving story about the love of a tree for a boy. It was followed the next year by three more books. It's funny and sad and has made readers laugh and think since it was published in 1963. "And now, children, your Uncle Shelby is going to tell you a story about a very strange lion- in fact, the strangest lion I have ever met." So begins Shel Silverstein's very first children's book, Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back.
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