Shel Silverstein is back! Though he has been dead for over ten years, Harper Collins recently announced that they will be publishing a new collection of his work in 2011. This will be the second posthumous collection of poetry and illustrations Silverstein to be released after his death, Publisher’s Weekly reports.
As of now, the currently untitled volume will include 120-130 previously unpublished works, which are being curated by the author’s longtime editor, Antonio Markiet. With a ton of material left behind, there is no shortage of work from Silverstein, who died in 1999 at the age of 67. His first collection published by Harper Collins in 2005, was ”Runny Babbit”.
Silverstein, whose body of work includes “The Giving Tree,” “Where the Sidewalk Ends,” “A Light in the Attic,” and “Falling Up,” was skill at depicting the innocence of youth in a unique, engaging and silly way. Because of his wit and honest candor in his work, he has remained immensely popular with children and adults due to his creative and eccentric observations about life, typically geared toward the child in all of us.
I have spoken of Silverstein before on WWDD and my love and my children’s love for his work. Silverstein’s funny rant like hypochondriac poems, capture the imagination we all had and some of us =may still have — especially when it comes to those highly coveted chances to remain home, dodging any and all responsibilities and chores. Writing about the common issues of the world of a child, made Silverstein not only entertaining, but extremely relevant to adults even. And some 40 plus years later, Silverstein is still relevant.
So as a Dad, a gifted creator and a man whose work has transcended his death, we salute you commonly Shel Silverstein–You are the Dad of the week, you billy sabbit!
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