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Shel combined his unique imagination and bold brand of humor in this collection of silly and scary creatures. The fourth book in 1964 was Uncle Shelby’s Zoo: Don’t Bump the Glump! and Other Fantasies, Shel’s only book illustrated in full color. Is how it starts, and the laughter builds to the most riotous ending possible. You don’t have to laugh it up even if most of my stuff is humorous.” Shel returned to humor that same year with Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros? and A Giraffe and a Half

She even let him keep the sad ending, Shel remembered, “because life, you know, has pretty sad endings. It took Shel four years before Ursula Nordstrom, the legendary Harper & Row editor, decided to publish it. Others felt that the book fell between adult and children’s literature and wouldn’t be popular. one publisher said it was too short.” Some thought it was too sad.

“Everybody loved it, they were touched by it, they would read it and cry and say it was beautiful. In an interview published in the Chicago Tribune in 1964, Shel talked about the difficult time he had trying to get the book published. The first, The Giving Tree, is a moving story about the love of a tree for a boy. It was followed the next year by four new books.

It’s funny and sad and has made readers laugh and think ever since it was published in 1963. a story about a very strange lion-in fact, the strangest lion I have ever met.” So begins Shel Silverstein’s very first children’s book, Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back. With more than one hundred and thirty never-before-seen poems and drawings completed by Silverstein and selected by his family from his archives, the collection follows in the tradition and format of his acclaimed poetry classics - Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic and Falling Up.“And now. It was published posthumously by Harper and Row Publishers in 2011. Every Thing On It is a collection of poems by Shel Silverstein.