S. Bobby Alexander

When my children grew past nursery rhymes and fairy tales, we found ourselves on a new shelf: poetry. That’s when Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends entered our lives.

I can still picture it — the way their eyes lit up as his crooked lines broke apart the neat rhythms they were used to. The words tumbled into absurdity, wonder, and questions that clung long after the book was closed. What b