The Hit Farm

SUBMITTED PHOTO PLAINFIELD — Students at Eichelberger Elementary School read Shel Silverstein's “The Giving Tree” in December, then collected items to be donated to the Lamb's Fold Women's Center to benefit homeless children. ROMEOVILLE — The lesson She and her best friend Annie McGraw, a third-grader from UA, drew pictures to create a book based [...]

Also releasing tomorrow is a new posthumous collection of never before published poems and illustrations from Shel Silverstein. Check out the rest of this week's new book releases: Fast-paced and full of intrigue, Heat Rises pairs the tough and sexy By PAMELA PAUL The stylistic eccentricities of Maurice Sendak, Shel Silverstein and Theodor Geisel, aka [...]

If you want to find out what a writer or a cartoonist really feels, look at his work. That's enough.” –Shel Silverstein, 1963 Shel Silverstein, who died in 1999 and would have celebrated his 81st birthday later this month, was a prolific perfectionist. Shel Silverstein's children's books are timeless. Take the Giving Tree. This moving [...]