The Razor-Tailed Wren
Copyright 2004 by Evil Eye Music, Inc. Reprinted with permission from the Estate of Shel Silverstein and HarperCollins Children’s Books.
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Poet Shel Silverstein 1930–1999
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
Subjects Relationships, Pets
Biography
A singer-songwriter, cartoonist, screenwriter, award-winning children’s writer, and actor, Shel Silverstein grew up in Chicago, Illinois. He started out as a cartoonist, publishing work in Playboy and the military publication Stars & Stripes, before turning to children’s books. Silverstein is the author and illustrator of numerous books, including The Giving Tree (1964), Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974), A Light in the Attic . . .
Poems by Shel Silverstein
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SUBJECT Relationships, Pets
POET’S REGION U.S., Mid-Atlantic
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