Shel Silverstein has been delighted vast numbers of American children and parents with the most exhilarating nonsense for nearly twenty years. What are these strangely engaging poems and pictures about? Polar bears in the refrigerator, for one thing, snoring mountains, homework machines and unscratchable itches; what to do if someone steals your knees; if you don't want to dry the dishes or in predicaments like this one: Grandma sent the hammock, The good Lord sent the breeze. I'm here to do the swinging — Now, who's gonna move the trees?
