Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein [FIRST EDITION / 60th PRINTING]

Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein 

FIRST EDITION  / 60th PRINTING [2002] HARPER COLLINS

Hardcover with dust jacket.  Dust Jacket has some yellowing to edges, but is otherwise structurally sound and glossy.   Book itself looks and reads like new; pristine cloth cover and stark white pages.  *Inscription from original owner handwritten on flyleaf page. 

Where the sidewalk ends, Shel Silverstein's world begins. There 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.

Shel Silverstein's masterful collection of poems and drawings is one of Parent & Child magazine's 100 Greatest Books for Kids. School Library Journal said, "Silverstein has an excellent sense of rhythm and rhyme and a good ear for alliteration and assonance that make these poems a pleasure to read aloud."