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Now my daughter is driving a car, but I still continue reading and buying his books for my nephews and nieces I bought every book by Silverstein for the following few years. My daughter received this book for her 4th birthday. That made us total Shel Silverstein addict.
Never a dull moment and I think every family should have his books in their home. You can not beat a Shel Silverstein book. Always full of excitement and at the same time his stories stimulate a childs (and adult's) imagination.
It's fun for the adult too. Shel's drawings are eccentric enough to capture the attention of kids as young as 2 1/2 and keep their attention while the goofy text is being read to them.
"If you had a giraffe,and it stretched another half,you would havea giraffe and a half."you would also have a 7-year old addicted to the poem, going through its turns and spins of the English language like being on a ride in a convertible on a good mountain road.
My kids were laughing hard, and completing the rhyming phrases by the time the tired (and ludicrously attired) giraffe is rescued from visiting the mole in his hole, and divested of all his rhyming add-ons by various (also rhyming) people and animals.This is a great book to read aloud to your children--just remember to take a BIG breath at the beginning of each page. A Giraffe and a Half IS targeted at the youngest audiences.As the poem goes on, the titular giraffe is exposed to a more riotously funny situation on every page (a rose on his nose, glue on his shoe, etc). Shel Silverstein's poems are always truly a delight. Some of the collections, however, contain poems that are not quite appropriate for the very youngest listeners.
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