Reading Shel Silverstein

A missing piece → An O

→The O →The Big O!

 

(Sentences below quoted from the PPT made by Professpr Chuang)

Shel Silverstein is that rare adult who can still think like a child.

--Judy Zuckerman, a children's specialist at the New York Public Library

Lipchitz: In the midst of death there is love and procreation and birth. This is I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books, pick up one and experience a personal sense of discovery. That's great. But for them, not for me.

When I was a kid – 12, 14, around there – I would much rather have been a good baseball player or a hit with the girls. But I couldn't play ball, I couldn't dance... So, I started to draw and to write. I was... lucky that I didn't have anyone to copy, be impressed by. I had developed my own style, I was creating before I knew there was a Thurber, a Benchley, a Price and a Steinberg. I never saw their work till I was around 30.

--From the interview in Publisher’s Weekly, 1975