Parents should know that there are some suggestive and morbid content in this book that young children might not understand. The image that probably stood out the most was the image of the Gink as it has a large mouth with sharp teeth and the image of the kids coming out of the Gink on the next page. Shel Silverstein’s illustrations are highly creative as the images make the characters look scratchy and also I love the images being presented in black and white colors, a technique that is usually used for long books. One of the funniest poems I have read was “Squishy Touch” when the main character turns everything into Jell-O. Shel Silverstein’s writing is as witty as it is funny as he writes each character’s stories in a poetic prose. “A Light in the Attic” may be too suggestive and morbid for smaller children, but older children will easily delight themselves with the silly shenanigans of the characters. This book is full of poems about clowns, pirates, monsters and all manner of strange people and animals doing crazy things.
“A Light in the Attic” is one of Shel Silverstein’s best yet most controversial books of poems ever written. We, as humans, need to come to terms with inexplicable and unfathomable in the world, and it wasn't until Shel that we began to realize that the only way to gently help our children do just that, is to let a perverted old weirdo with a large stack of Playboys in his basement lead the way. Knowing that Shel sees things this way, too, makes it all easier to take, and makes your own oddness that much more tolerable. Or, more to the point, you shouldn't meet them if that is an option.Ĭhildren need to experience this kind of creepy / weird / funny / sad stuff, not just for their own sake, but for the sake of having a conduit through which they can make sense of most of the rest of the world. If there are people who don't like Shel Silverstein, I don't want to meet them. Demento show numerous times, and managed to get a few books published along the way.įor some reason, parents never seem to think this creepy old guy who was so fond of children was in any way "disturbing," something I'm continually impressed with in the "ban now, ask questions later" climate of modern culture.
Every child eventually discovers the perverted old man who wrote songs for Johnny Cash, did illustrations for Playboy, appeared on the Dr.
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