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Shel Silverstein: Poet
Chicago-born poet, singer-songwriter, cartoonist, screenwriter, and author Shel Silverstein is a prolific personality. This biography describes the life and career of this talent, whose works include "Where the Sidewalk Ends," "The Giving Tree," and "A Light in the Attic."
- GenresPoetry
48 pages, Hardcover
First published November 1, 2006
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About the author
Rachel Lynette
170 books7 followersRachel Lynette has written over seventy nonfiction books for children as well as resource materials for teachers. She is also a Top Ten seller on the website teacherspayteachers.com. In addition, she writes a blog for teachers, parents, and homeschoolers focusing on higher level thinking skills called Minds in Bloom (www.minds-in-bloom.com).
Rachel lives in the Seattle area with her two delightful children, David and Lucy, and a cat named Cosette. When she isn't writing she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, traveling, reading, biking, drawing, and crocheting colorful hats.
Rachel also writes under the pen names: Lynette Robbins and Tori Miller.
Rachel lives in the Seattle area with her two delightful children, David and Lucy, and a cat named Cosette. When she isn't writing she enjoys spending time with her family and friends, traveling, reading, biking, drawing, and crocheting colorful hats.
Rachel also writes under the pen names: Lynette Robbins and Tori Miller.
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November 12, 2015
Rachel Lynette in addition to teaching science to her students in Seattle also manages to find time to write for Kid Haven Press, including a well designed biography on Shel Silverstein. Lynette covers Shel Silverstein’s life with enough details to provide students and readers will enough information to grasp all Silverstein accomplished in his life, but not become a tedious read.
The Innovators series follows many different types of influential people, but in every book includes various pictures and graphs, and index, glossary, and annotated bibliography. This is very prevalent in Shel Silverstein’s edition. My favorite section of this book was the “Further Information” section, which provides the reader with a list of books that were either mentioned are also cover the topic. I think this is a great idea because it promotes investigation and future learning past this one book.
Overall, this book has a creative layout that is easy to look at and understand. The chapter headings are in chronological order thus allowing the reader to go on the life journey with the subject of the book. Lastly, who could honestly turn down an opportunity to look at more of Shel Silverstein’s work?
The Innovators series follows many different types of influential people, but in every book includes various pictures and graphs, and index, glossary, and annotated bibliography. This is very prevalent in Shel Silverstein’s edition. My favorite section of this book was the “Further Information” section, which provides the reader with a list of books that were either mentioned are also cover the topic. I think this is a great idea because it promotes investigation and future learning past this one book.
Overall, this book has a creative layout that is easy to look at and understand. The chapter headings are in chronological order thus allowing the reader to go on the life journey with the subject of the book. Lastly, who could honestly turn down an opportunity to look at more of Shel Silverstein’s work?
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