A Light in the Attic

The second volume of poetry from master nonsense verse writer and illustrator Shel Silverstein. Promotion via free copies for school librarians.

Synopsis

Shel Silverstein is one of America’s best loved poets, whose work is read by every child in the USA but is almost unknown in the UK. Think Spike Milligan meets Edward Lear: it’s nonsense poetry that makes perfect sense. Of course you would sell your sister, who wouldn’t want to get rid of ‘This crying and spying young sister for sale?’ Shel Silverstein’s work is full of children who eat whales, who can kick footballs from here to Afghanistan, who know that thumb sucked thumbs taste the sweetest, and can’t go to school because their brains have shrunk. Shel Silverstein wrote ‘A Boy Named Sue’ for Johnny Cash and many other lyrics as well as his poetry for children, which has sold over 4 million copies worldwide.