21 Short and Sweet Shel Silverstein Poems That’ll Bring You Back to Childhood

HarperKids
3 min readMar 30, 2017

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April is Poetry Month and we’re celebrating with some of our favorite Shel Silverstein poems from all your favorite Shel Silverstein books. Shel Silverstein quotes are the best!

1. “Invitation” Where the Sidewalk Ends

2. “Runny’s Heading Rabits” Runny Babbit

3. “Homework Machine” A Light in the Attic

4. “For Sale” Where the Sidewalk Ends

5. “Gardener” Falling Up Special Edition

6. “Falling Up” Falling Up

7. “The Wild Cherote” Don’t Bump the Glump

8. “Put Something in” A Light in the Attic

9. “Snowball” Falling Up

10. “Flag” Where the Sidewalk Ends

11. “Frozen Dream” A Light in the Attic

12. “Superstar” Every Thing On It

13. “Pancake?” Where the Sidewalk Ends

14. “Monsters I’ve Met” A Light in the Attic

15. “The Voice” Falling Up

16. “The Bibely” Don’t Bump the Glump!

17. “Runny’s Hew Nobby” Runny Babbit

18. “Noise Day” Falling Up

19. “School” Every Thing On It

20. “Eighteen Flavors” Where the Sidewalk Ends

21. “Superstitious” A Light in the Attic

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