false <![CDATA[A Light in the Attic]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173031777m/240007.jpg 30118 16 <i>Last night while I lay thinking here <br>Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear <br>And pranced and partied all night long <br>And sang their same old Whatif song: Whatif I flunk that test?<br>Whatif green hair grows on my chest?<br>Whatif nobody likes me?<br>Whatif a bolt of lightning strikes me?...</i> Here in the attic of Shel Silverstein you will find Backward Bill, Sour Face Ann, the Meehoo with an Exactlywatt, and the Polar Bear in the Frigidaire. You will talk with Broiled Face, and find out what happens when Somebody steals your knees, you get caught by the Quick-Digesting Gink, a Mountain snores, and They Put a Brassiere on the Camel.</p><p>From the creator of the beloved poetry collections <i>Where the Sidewalk Ends</i> and <i>Falling Up,</i> here is another wondrous book of poems and drawings.</p> 142009 1981 A Light in the Attic total:26869|5:13450|4:9242|3:3598|2:487|1:93| 26869 116075 29353 668 5 4 false false Sun Feb 10 16:09:55 -0800 2008 Fri Mar 07 11:35:50 -0800 2008 Dr. Demento show numerous times, and managed to get a few books published along the way.

For some reason, parents never seem to think this creepy old gu...more...]]> 5 2 false false Thu Oct 25 19:27:54 -0700 2007 Tue Aug 05 12:38:17 -0700 2008 A Light in the Attic with my younger daughter, who's four-and-a-half. I think when I first read it I must have been about eight or nine years old, because I remember reading it myself, and loving it. (I must have checked it out of the library about a million times.) Wh...more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Oct 01 20:16:46 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 26 23:42:34 -0700 2007
He was a genius, but not an evil one. Just a hilarious one.

His books are looked at with suspicion. But shouldn't be, because they are full of fun, pun, and literate value.

Here is why this one was challenged by others, however:
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Crowded Tub

There s too many kids in this tub.
There s too many elbows to scrub.
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Reason for occult is so children can not learn about paranormal or mag...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Aug 18 19:26:07 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 18 19:27:33 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1991 Thu Aug 02 09:53:35 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 02 09:59:31 -0700 2007 I am 7,its Christmas and all the gifts are wrapped and under the tree.
I could see through the wrapping paper a faint outline of the cover of A Light in the Attic.
I begged.
I screamed.
I was not allowed to open the present even though I knew what it was.
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It was my absolute favorite book when I was a child. So I figured, "Why not? I mig...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon May 25 06:50:10 -0700 2009 Mon May 25 07:05:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Tue Mar 25 08:42:19 -0700 2008 Tue Mar 25 08:52:43 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed May 23 07:38:25 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 20 11:51:48 -0700 2007
There's too many kids in this tub
There's too many elbows to scrub
I just washed a behind
That I'm sure wasn't mine
There's too many kids in this tub!
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I loved A Light in the Attic as a child, and enjoy reading Shel Silverstein's poems just as much as an adult. Poems like "Messy Room" and "Superstitious" are easy for many children to identify with...more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=240007