Themes In A Light In The Attic

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Themes in a light in the attic.

In light verse shel silverstein delivers both a moral lesson and mischief. It was first published by harper row in 1981. Had everyone who ever read these poems followed their teachings we would live in a funky imagination fevered world free of whiners charlatans spoiled brats and losers. This classic collection of poems and drawings features an assortment of characters including almost perfect mary hume and the turnable twistable man.

I know you people wanted some1 to answer this. This book is full of poems about clowns pirates monsters and all manner of strange people and animals doing crazy things. The poems for children are accompanied by illustrations also created by shel silverstein. A light in the attic is a collection of poems by the american poet writer and children s author shel silverstein.

Shel silverstein s poems exist within the same timeless canon of children s classics as where the wild things are james and the giant peach and alice in wonderland like an edward gorey illustration come to life this wonderfully imaginative collection of poems songs and post 60s hippie rhetoric bristles with unguarded enthusiasm and willy wonka esque grandstanding.