The family of the beloved children's poet has released Every Thing On It, a collection of playful, previously unpublished poems and drawings. "I... Shel Silverstein's Poems Live On In 'Every Thing' ...

Verse is an inextricable part of human existence. We start exposing children to it from the moment they're born, through lullabies, Dr. Seuss books, and Sesame Street segments. But when you look back ...

HarperCollins Children's Books has announced thefall 2011 release of a collection of never-before published Shel Silversteinpoems and illustrations. Not yet titled, the book will share the same format ...

Kai Ryssdal: To mark April being national poetry month we’re spending a couple of Mondays on the poetry of all things economic. A lot of you wrote to nominate “Smart” by Shel Silverstein. A poem about ...

We grew up reading the delightful writings of Shel Silverstein in works like “Where the Sidewalk Ends” and we still cry at the end of “The Giving Tree,” so we’re overjoyed to learn that a new book of ...

Consider the many worlds of the late writer and illustrator Shel Silverstein. He was friends with Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and with Nashville songwriters, such as Kris Kristofferson. Now, six years ...

Many of us fondly remember Shel Silverstein as the voice of our childhoods. We were lulled by the amiable content of collections like Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic and The Giving Tree.