Shel Silverstein was one of the most talented poets of the last century. If you were a kid who grew up in America, you grew up with his songs, poems, and maybe one or two cartoons that he made, too.

HarperCollins Children's Books has announced thefall 2011 release of a collection of never-before published Shel Silversteinpoems and illustrations. Not yet titled, the book will share the same format ...

“Come, Boy, sit down. Sit down and rest./ And the boy did./ And the tree was happy.” (Silverstein, The Giving Tree) Fifth year architecture student Jordan Snittjer enjoys a Silverstein classic. Photo ...

Ten years after his heartbreaking children's book The Giving Tree was published, Shel Silverstein's editor Ursula Nordstrom at Harper & Row convinced the author to write a book of poetry. In 1974, ...

First published in 1981, Shel Silverstein’s A Light in the Attic was the first children’s book to reach the New York Times bestseller list, where it appeared a total of 182 weeks. Next month, ...