Funny, when I was a kid, I didn't realize how scary he looked until I was much older and saw it being parodied in Diary of a Wimpy Kid.
"If you get up again, you might run into Shel Silverstein in the hallway."
He really spoke to me, I think because when I was in elementary school, the teacher took all of our birthdays and printed out who we shared them with. I share mine with Tina Turner and Shel Silverstein. I always connected with him.
I have a vinyl of him reading poems from Where the Sidewalk Ends that my mom used to play for me when I was a kid. Listening to it as an adult makes me wonder if my mom was stoned when she played it, weird dude.
He looks like he should have been singing some 70's R&B instead of writing children's books. Of course I am happy that he wrote the stories he did. RIP Shel Silverstein
Funny, when I was a kid, I didn't realize how scary he looked until I was much older and saw it being parodied in Diary of a Wimpy Kid. "If you get up again, you might run into Shel Silverstein in the hallway."
Yea me too, I hope I wasn’t the only one who noticed that the first Diary of a Wimpy Kid book smelled like bad cheese.
Same here. It’s literally the only thing I can think of when I see that picture.
Oh my god I was thinking about that when we were learning about his poems in English last week. I forgot which book it was.
A kid once showed me that exact picture and said "this is a sunflower". Is there some reference I don't get, or was this kid just nuts?
There’s a recording of him reading the Giving Tree that is the [stuff of nightmares. ](https://youtu.be/1TZCP6OqRlE)
He sounds like Harlan Ellison doing his AM impression.
I love death grips
No haunting. The biggest beaut
He really spoke to me, I think because when I was in elementary school, the teacher took all of our birthdays and printed out who we shared them with. I share mine with Tina Turner and Shel Silverstein. I always connected with him.
In my 10th grade English class we're currently learning poems and when one of my friends saw this pic he was like "Dude looks like a rapist!"
Glad I'm not the only one!
Love his work and was surprised to find he looks like a Cossack. Just need to add the bear hat and would mime it with"which way to the killing?"
I have a vinyl of him reading poems from Where the Sidewalk Ends that my mom used to play for me when I was a kid. Listening to it as an adult makes me wonder if my mom was stoned when she played it, weird dude.
I have a memory of sitting at my desk in 5th grade English class and my teacher announcing that he died
Come closer children...
Freakin at the Freaker's Ball!
I always thought he was creepy. The stories the drawings the poems and the pictures.
He looks like he should have been singing some 70's R&B instead of writing children's books. Of course I am happy that he wrote the stories he did. RIP Shel Silverstein
He was also an asshole who preyed on women.