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“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
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“Needles and pins,
Needles and pins,
Sew me a sail
To catch me the wind.”
– from “Needles and Pins”
Falling Up
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“Millie McDeevit screamed a scream
So loud it made her eyebrows steam.”
– from “Screamin’ Millie”
Falling Up
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“I will not play at tug o’ war.
I’d rather play at hug o’ war”
– from “Hug O’ War”
Where the Sidewalk Ends
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“If you are a dreamer, come in.”
– from “Invitation”
Where the Sidewalk Ends
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“Anything can happen, child,
ANYTHING can be.”
– from “Listen to the Mustn’ts"
Where the Sidewalk Ends
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“It was missing a piece.
And it was not happy.”
– from The Missing Piece
The Missing Piece
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“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
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“Somebody has to go polish the stars,
They’re looking a little bit dull.”
– from “Somebody Has To”
A Light in the Attic
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“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
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“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
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“There are too many kids in this tub.”
– from “Crowded Tub”
A Light in the Attic
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“Last night, while I lay thinking here
Some Whatifs crawled inside my ear”
– “Whatif”
A Light in the Attic
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“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
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“Nobody loves me,
Nobody cares,
Nobody picks me peaches and pears.”
– from “Nobody”
A Light in the Attic
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“The baby bat
Screamed out in fright,
“Turn on the dark,
I’m afraid of the light.””
– “Batty”
A Light in the Attic
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“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
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“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
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“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
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“But all the magic I have known
I've had to make myself.”
– from “Magic”
Where the Sidewalk Ends
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“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
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“And all the colors I am inside
Have not been invented yet.”
– from “Colors”
Where the Sidewalk Ends
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“Once there was a tree …
and she loved a little boy.”
– from The Giving Tree
The Giving Tree
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“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
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“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
