Maria Vitol reads Silverstein Shela's fairy tale in English
Channel: Читаем Детям
Date: 18/10/2018

“One and a half giraffe” is the next book after “Lafkadio” by Shel Silverstein, a famous poet, writer, artist, playwright and musician. This long, but incredibly ridiculous poem, where the Silverstein-artist barely keeps pace with the Silverstein poet, who throws out the most unbelievable prick, will appeal to both adults and children. Adults will hear in it an echo of the traditional and beloved English absurdity, while children, following the poet and the artist, will plunge into the most exciting of the games in the world - a game of imagination.

Shel Silverstein is rightly considered a classic of children's literature. But the “classic” does not mean the author of the poems from the school anthology that have been imposed on the teeth. Silverstein is not afraid to touch on quite adult themes, putting them in the form of a joke, not afraid to entice readers into the dizzying whirlpool of absurdist poetry, not afraid that his graphics will be incomprehensible to children who are considered to love colorful illustrations. Maybe it is because of this fearlessness and the confidence that children will understand and appreciate, what would seem to be available only to adults, his books are adored by both very young readers and their parents. For more than forty years.