Shel Silverstein

Howie Richmond (1917-2012): Music Publishing Pioneer With a Big Heart

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.28.2012

Read More: Traffic, Howie Richmond, Pink Floyd, Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Carl Sigman, Charles Aznavour, Anthony Newley, Pete Seeger, Johnny Mercer, Guy Lombardo, Shel Silverstein, Howie Richmond Dead, Video, Entertainment News

You may not know the name Howie Richmond, but without him, it's likely you'd have never gotten to know the music of Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Lead Belly and many other essential figures in American and European popular music.

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Colors: A Message of Hope for 'World Read Aloud Day' From Our Friends in Jerusalem

Pam Allyn | Posted 05.01.2012

Read More: Jews, Israelis, Writing, Ngos, Peace, Poetry, Jerusalem, Arabs, Jewish, Litworld, Israel, Reading, World Read Aloud Day, Shel Silverstein, Diversity, Israeli Arabs, Video, Good News News

Literacy has all kinds of benefits that we might not associate immediately with reading and writing. The stories we read and write and share have the power to transcend physical borders as well as boundaries of race and religion.

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The Storyteller & Paradise Lost: Conversations With Todd Snider and Great American Taxi's Vince Herman

Mike Ragogna | Posted 02.27.2012

Read More: Eric McConnell, The Del McCoury Band, Leftover Salmon, Don Was, Todd Snider, John Prine, Jason D. Williams, James McMurtry, Jimmy Buffett, The Coral Reefer Band, Tim O'Brien, Great American Taxi, Don Henley, Hank Williams, The Partridge Family, Bob Mercer, Rush Limbaugh, The Sopranos, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Ben Kaufman, Bob Dylan, Bobby Bare, New Grass Revival, Vince Herman, Jeff Austin, Hot Rize, Jackson Browne, The Band, Robert Earl Keen, Shel Silverstein, Tonder Mountain Strong Band, Justin Bieber, Video, Entertainment News

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Best Fall Books According To Children

Zoe Triska | Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Best Children's Books 2011, Video, Michael Chabon, Reviews, Children's Books, Childrens Books, Book Reviews, Children's Book Reviews, Maurice Sendak, Childrens Book Reviews, Shel Silverstein, Books News

We get a lot of children's books in the mail. This is great, but we're a few decades away from the target demographic. Wouldn't children's book rev...

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Hey, Kids! A Decade After His Death, Shel Silverstein Has a New Book

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Roald Dahl, Shel Silverstein, Johnny Cash, The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein New Book, Ozzie and Harriet, Children's Books, Video, Books News

Every Thing On It, published eleven years after Shel Silverstein's death, arrived yesterday. Homework was instantly abandoned. The Girl Who Hates To Read simply had to dive into this collection of 139 poems.

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Shel Silverstein Releases Poem About Italian Food

Posted 11.20.2011

Read More: Silverstein New Book, Shel Silverstein New Book, Shel Silverstein Died, Every Thing on It, Shel Silverstein, Shel Silverstein Italian Food, Food News

Apparently the sidewalk hasn't quite ended for Shel Silverstein's bibliography. Today marked the release of a new edition of previously unpublished po...

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A Big Week For TV, Charlie Sheen Gets Roasted

Posted 11.19.2011

Read More: Video, Moneyball, Charlie Sheen Roast, Prop 8 Play, Week in Culture, Moneyball Brad Pitt, Shel Silverstein, Tony Bennett Duets II, Two and a Half Men Premiere, Tv Fall Lineup, Culture News

Monday, September 19 "8" will finally get its one-night Broadway staging Monday at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre in New York. The Dustin Lance Black p...

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Don't Want The Titles Of Your Favorite Kids' Books Ruined? Don't Read These Variations!

Dan Wilbur | Posted 07.06.2011

Read More: Where the Red Fern Grows, Roald Dahl, Where the Wild Things Are, James and the Giant Peach, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, The Lorax, Children's Books, The Cat in the Hat, The Polar Express, Dr. Seuss, Better Book Titles, Children's Book Week, Slidepollajax, Harry Potter, Shel Silverstein, J.K. Rowling, Books News

To celebrate Children's Book Week, Better Book Titles would like to save you time by summing up Children's classics. Now, you can avoid any awkward conversations with your child or failure to see the moral of the story by knowing the content of these books beforehand.

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9 Earth Day Favorites You Should Read To Celebrate (PHOTOS)

Posted 06.22.2011

Read More: Silver Spring, Jon Stewart, Earth Day 2011, Earth Day, Henry David Thoreau, Rachel Carson, Environment, The Giving Tree, The Lorax, Alan Weisman, The World Without US, Walden, Dr. Seuss, Shel Silverstein, Books News

It's Earth Day, and in order to celebrate, we asked you what you'd be reading, or recommend reading, to recognize the day. We got a wide range of ...

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New Shel Silverstein Books Running Out Of Material

CollegeHumor Article | Posted 06.18.2011

Read More: College Humor, Shel Silverstein, Funny Pictures, Comedy News

I Think They're Running Out of Material For New Shel Silverstein Books...

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HuffPostBook Exclusive: Title And Cover Reveal, New Shel Silverstein Collection

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Where the Sidewalk Ends, Shel Silverstein, Falling Up, Everything on It, Harpercollins, Authors, Light in the Attic, Shel Silverstein Died, Books News

Here it is, only the second book to come out since Shel Silverstein died in 1999. Apparently, tons of new poems by the author of "Where the Sidewalk E...

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The End of the Book

Tom Vander Ark | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Rita-Dove, Education Reform, Shel Silverstein, Books, Tim Berners-Lee, Impact News

In 1994 Rita Dove was the Poet Laureate of the United States, Tim Berners-Lee formed The World Wide Web Consortium at MIT, and I was a new public school superintendent.

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Indie Rockers Record Shel Silverstein Album

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein, My Morning Jacket, John Lunberg, Poems, Poetry, Andrew Bird, Healthy Living News

You're probably familiar with Johnny Cash's rendition of "A Boy Named Sue," but did you know it was written by beloved children's poet Shel Silverstein?

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The Cover of the Huffington Post

Randall Amster | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Google, Living News, Writers, Twitter, John Lennon, Bloggers, Big News, Ray Bradbury, Huffpo, Dr. Hook, Facebook, Shel Silverstein, Muse, 2012, Healthy Living News

A famousauthor once told me, "Don't ever believe a writer who says they don't read their own press clippings." Likewise, don't trust a blogger who tells you they don't care how many people read their posts.

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24, Shel Silverstein, Muons and God's Toe

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.17.2011

Physicists at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory claimed to have overcome the precepts of relativity and quantum mechanics. Wouldn't it be nice if Shel Silverstein were around to write a song about our metaphysical mess?

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Were These Famous Children's Authors Actually Huge Jerks?

Strollerderby | Cole Gamble | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Aesop, The Wizard of Oz, Authors, Children's Book Authors, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Books, Children's Books, Dr. Seuss, Frank L. Baum, Shel Silverstein, Books News

Are children's book author's lives as squeaky clean as the tales they crank out to bookstores? The other day, I misplaced my better nature and took to...

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Healthy Food: Where Hope Begins

Robyn O'Brien | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Hope, Allergykids, Asthma, Autism, Diabetes, Obesity, Pharmaceuticals, Monsanto, Shel Silverstein, Allergies, Pepsico, Food Politics, Healthy Living News

We consume more pharmaceutical drugs than any other country, and we consume more chemicals in our food supply than the cows in France. Our lives have been devalued.

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Addressing Phi Theta Kappa on Social Responsibility

Jim Luce | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Facebook, Paradox of Affluence in America, Episcopal, Technology With a Conscience, Mother Jones, Twitter, The Learning Tree, Mathew Luce, AIDS Orphans, Haiti, Daiwa Bank, Mayflower, Starfish Story, Harvard, Jim Luce Story, Merrill Lynch, Thomas Dudley, Vow of Poverty, Wall Street, College of Wooster, Phi Theta Kappa, Orphans, Social Responsibility, Celebes Islands, Stanford Leonard Luce, Frances Alleman-Luce, Jim's Rule, Orphans International Worldwide, Japanese Studies, Shel Silverstein, Mathew's Rule, Orphanage, Phi-Theta-Kappa, Careers, Healthy Living News

One person can make a difference. You can make a difference.

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America's Other Poet Laureate

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Shel Silverstein, Poetic Life, Mary Ann Hoberman, Healthy Living News

I loved reading Shel Silverstein as a kid. His poems stirred my imagination more than anything else I remember reading back then. Sure they could be ...

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The Poems You Loved As A Kid (Yes, You Did!)

John Lundberg | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: The Inner Life, Shel Silverstein, Healthy Living News

Maybe it's because I spent the week trying to avoid round-the-clock Reverend Wright coverage, yearning for the days before I knew the meaning of the w...

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