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#PoetryMatters Day 14: #Tell

So come and sit…and dream…and climb

Shel Silverstein is a classic for children‘s literature. His poetry books are full of poems that are engaging for students to read.

Poems by Shel Silverstein. These poems are fun and witty, and appealing to children and readers of all ages. Silverstein accompanied his poems with unique illustrations.

this book is too fun and practices many literacy skills

this book is very fun. Silverstein‘s drawings are whimsical and eye catching.

I‘d like to include this whole poem as a quote just because it‘s a play on words because it‘s kind of like reading things is hypnotizing you because it‘s all you‘re thinking about is what you‘re reading. Oh, this is a really great poem and made you think after you‘re done reading it.

My dad and I always read the Shell Silverstein poem books, and I always loved the pictures. They were so odd and interesting you couldn‘t keep your eyes off them. But like his poems, they are quite odd. They go perfectly along with the picture.

The classic following up by shell Silverstein is a collection of poems necessarily go together. He has a little rhyming words which we can be confusing for kids because when kids think of poems, I think a rhyming words.