Douglas's review
Where the Sidewalk Ends 30th Anniversary Edition: Poems and Drawings
by Shel Silverstein
children's literature is a vast world where much of the child's developing imagination could be set aside, away from creativity, and into the constructs of adult fantasy where life's moral ethics are reinforced through fairy-tales and other hierarchy constructs that regulate how a child "should" behave. silverstein is completely aware of the need for children to explore literature that is not contextualized under the right and wrong patterns of adult life.
where the sidewalk ends, the imagination begins.
one of the first subversive writers in children's literature.
Douglas's review
Where the Sidewalk Ends 30th Anniversary Edition: Poems and Drawings by Shel Silverstein
Douglas's review
rating:
children's literature is a vast world where much of the child's developing imagination could be set aside, away from creativity, and into the constructs of adult fantasy where life's moral ethics are reinforced through fairy-tales and other hierarchy constructs that regulate how a child "should" behave. silverstein is completely aware of the need for children to explore literature that is not contextualized under the right and wrong patterns of adult life.
where the sidewalk ends, the imagination begins.
one of the first subversive writers in children's literature.
