Just a year after captivating young readers with 'Where the Sidewalk Ends,' Silverstein talked about how he never imagined he ...

Shel Silverstein—the late cartoonist, singer, songwriter, playwright, and mega-selling author of such classics as The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends—didn't like children's literature.

Father and son say they wanted to do the tribute album to expose Silverstein's songwriting to a wider audience. "There were at least three sides to Shel, and one of them, of course -- a lot people ...

"And now, children, your Uncle Shelby is going to tell you a story about a very strange lion -- in fact, the strangest lion I have ever met ..." - Shel Silverstein I can still recall the sing-song ...

More than a decade after his death of a heart attack at age 68, Shel Silverstein's career avoids any defining label. Millions of children have anointed him to beloved status thanks to poetry books ...

As a matter of fact, Silverstein had a solo music career, as he released a plethora of singer/songwriter folk recordings. However, his forte was certainly writing, and before we get to that, it’s ...

They were the unlikeliest of collaborators. Bobby Bare was a country star raised on the north bank of the Ohio River. Shel Silverstein was a hipster raised in a Jewish neighborhood in Chicago. Bare ...

CHICAGO (CBS)-- Renowned children's author and Chicago native Shel Silverstein has been honored with a new "forever" postage stamp. The stamp was dedicated at Charles R. Darwin Elementary, at 3116 W.

“Where the Sidewalk Ends,” “The Giving Tree,” and “A Light in the Attic” may be the best known titles from the pen of Shel Silverstein. But what do we associate with Shel Silverstein, the playwright?

For the last few years I’ve been writing a scholarly book about Shel Silverstein’s life and work. Yet, after five years of labor, I’ve recently come to realize that my book will very possibly never be ...

A floppy-eared protagonist who would be called Bunny Rabbit in the straight-talking world morphed into Runny Babbit in the inimitable imagination of Shel Silverstein, and first appeared in Runny ...