The Light In The Attic Summary

A fat volume of small illustrated rhymes from silverstein who gets down to the level of kids peeves spooks and sense of silliness often enough to score a collective hit.

The light in the attic summary.

Poet delivers both a moral lesson and mischief. The poems for children are accompanied by illustrations also created by shel silverstein. Each of the creatures and characters is fascinating and never overly moralistically drawn. His cast includes a babysitter who thinks her job is to sit on the baby a selfish child who prays that if he dies his toys will break so no one else can have them a walrus with braces and a man who thought he had wavy.

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 collection of children s poems from shel silverstein is a real treat. A light in the attic has 53 reviews and 42 ratings. A light in the attic is a collection of poems by the american poet writer and children s author shel silverstein it was first published by harper row in 1981.

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