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Fun

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Shel's Books

Don't Bump the Glump!

Every Thing On It

Falling Up

A Giraffe and a Half

The Giving Tree

Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back

A Light in the Attic

The Missing Piece

The Missing Piece Meets the Big O

Runny Babbit

Runny Babbit Returns

Where the Sidewalk Ends

Who wants a cheap Rhinoceros?

About Shel

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Learning Resources

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Event Kits

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Quotes

  • “My beard grows to my toes, I never wear no clothes, I wraps my hair Around my bare, And down the road I goes.” – “My Beard”

    Where the Sidewalk Ends
  • “Needles and pins, Needles and pins, Sew me a sail To catch me the wind.” – from “Needles and Pins”

    Falling Up
  • “Millie McDeevit screamed a scream So loud it made her eyebrows steam.” – from “Screamin’ Millie”

    Falling Up
  • “I will not play at tug o’ war. I’d rather play at hug o’ war” – from “Hug O’ War”

    Where the Sidewalk Ends
  • “If you are a dreamer, come in.” – from “Invitation”

    Where the Sidewalk Ends
  • “Anything can happen, child, ANYTHING can be.” – from “Listen to the Mustn’ts"

    Where the Sidewalk Ends
  • “Balancing my ABCs Takes from noon to half past three. I don’t have time to grab a T Or even stop to take a P.” – “Alphabalance”

    Falling Up
  • “Last night I had a crazy dream That I was teachin’ school. My teachers had turned into kids, And I laid down the rules.” – from “Crazy Dream”

    Falling Up
  • “If we were a rock ‘n’ roll band, We’d travel all over the land.” – from “Rock ‘N’ Roll Band”

    A Light in the Attic
  • “It was missing a piece. And it was not happy.” – from The Missing Piece

    The Missing Piece
  • “Mo memorized the dictionary But just can’t seem to find a job Or anyone who wants to marry Someone who memorized the dictionary.” – “Memorizin’ Mo”

    A Light in the Attic
  • “Somebody has to go polish the stars, They’re looking a little bit dull.” – from “Somebody Has To”

    A Light in the Attic
  • “The Homework Machine, oh the Homework Machine, Most perfect contraption that’s ever been seen.” – from “Homework Machine”

    A Light in the Attic
  • “ “A genuine anteater,” The pet man told my dad. Turned out, it was an aunt eater, And now my uncle’s mad!” – “Anteater”

    A Light in the Attic
  • “The saddest thing I ever did see Was a woodpecker peckin’ at a plastic tree. He looks at me, and “Friend,” says he, “Things ain’t as sweet as they used to be.”” – “Peckin’”

    A Light in the Attic
  • “There are too many kids in this tub.” – from “Crowded Tub”

    A Light in the Attic
  • “Last night, while I lay thinking here Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear” – “Whatif”

    A Light in the Attic
  • “We’ve been caught by the quick-digesting Gink, And now we’re dodgin’ his teeth … And now we are restin’ in his intestine, And now we’re back out on the street.” – “Quick Trip”

    A Light in the Attic
  • “Nobody loves me, Nobody cares, Nobody picks me peaches and pears.” – from “Nobody”

    A Light in the Attic
  • “The baby bat Screamed out in fright, “Turn on the dark, I’m afraid of the light.”” – “Batty”

    A Light in the Attic
  • “Anyhow, you've been warned and I will not be blamed if your Wild Strawberries cannot be tamed.” – from “Wild Strawberries”

    Where the Sidewalk Ends
  • “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would not take the garbage out!” – from “Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out”

    Where the Sidewalk Ends
  • “If the track is tough and the hill is rough, THINKING you can just ain't enough!” – from “The Little Blue Engine”

    Where the Sidewalk Ends
  • “But all the magic I have known I've had to make myself.” – from “Magic”

    Where the Sidewalk Ends
  • “And he didn't really know where he was going, but he did know he was going somewhere, because you really have to go somewhere, don't you?” – from Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back

    Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back
  • “And all the colors I am inside Have not been invented yet.” – from “Colors”

    Where the Sidewalk Ends
  • “Once there was a tree … and she loved a little boy.” – from The Giving Tree

    The Giving Tree
  • “They’ve put a brassiere on the camel, She wasn’t dressed proper, you know.” – from “They’ve Put a Brassiere on the Camel”

    A Light in the Attic
  • “All the Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas Layin’ in the sun, Talkin’ ‘bout the things They woulda-coulda-shoulda done… But those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas All ran away and hid From one little did.” – “Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda,”

    Falling Up

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