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A Light in the Attic

Pages
185
Published
1981
Language
English

Synopsis

Shel Silverstein's second major poetry collection for children, published in 1981, gathers 135 poems alongside his own pen-and-ink drawings. Its inhabitants include Backward Bill, Sour Face Ann, the Meehoo with an Exactlywatt and the Polar Bear in the Frigidaire, and its subjects run from a homework machine and a snoring mountain to what happens when somebody steals your knees.

The drawings are not decoration: a picture frequently supplies the punchline the words have set up. It spent months on the bestseller lists after publication and remains one of the most widely read books of American children's verse.

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