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Shel Silverstein

De handtekening van Shel Silverstein

Sheldon Allan (Shel) Silverstein (Chicago, 25 september 1930Key West, 10 mei 1999) was een Amerikaanse dichter, singer-songwriter, muzikant, componist, cartoonist, scenarist en auteur van kinderboeken. In de door hem geschreven kinderboeken komt hij zelf voor als Oom Shelby. Zijn boeken zijn vertaald in 20 talen.

Hij schreef de teksten en muziek voor het grootste deel van de Dr. Hook-liedjes, waaronder "The Cover Of The Rolling Stone", "Freakin' at the Freakers' Ball" , "Sylvia's Mother", "The Things I Didn't Say", "Ballsack" en een waarschuwend lied over venerische ziekten "Don't Give a Dose to the One You Love Most". Ook het nummer "The Ballad of Lucy Jordan", bekend van Marianne Faithfull, is van zijn hand. De wereldberoemde Johnny Cash-hit "A boy named Sue" is ook van zijn hand. Later schreef hij er een vervolg op: "Father of a boy named Sue".

  • Take Ten (Pacific Stars and Stripes, 1955)
  • Grab Your Socks! (Ballantine Books, 1956)
  • Now Here's My Plan (Simon & Schuster, 1960)
  • Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book (Simon & Schuster, 1961)
  • Playboy's Teevee Jeebies (Playboy Press, 1963)
  • Uncle Shelby's Story of Lafcadio: The Lion Who Shot Back (Harper & Row, 1963)
  • A Giraffe and a Half (HarperCollins, 1964)
  • The Giving Tree (HarperCollins, 1964)
  • Who Wants a Cheap Rhinoceros? (Macmillan, 1964)
  • Uncle Shelby's Zoo: Don't Bump the Glump! and Other Fantasies (Simon enSchuster, 1964)
  • More Playboy's Teevee Jeebies (Playboy Press, 1965)
  • Where the Sidewalk Ends (HarperCollins, 1974)
  • The Missing Piece (HarperCollins, 1976)
  • Different Dances (HarperCollins, 1979)
  • A Light in the Attic (HarperCollins, 1981)
  • The Missing Piece Meets the Big O (HarperCollins, 1981)
  • Falling Up (HarperCollins, 1996)
  • Draw a Skinny Elephant (HarperCollins, 1998)
  • Runny Babbit (HarperCollins, 2005) (Published posthumously)
  • Don't Bump the Glump! and Other Fantasies (HarperCollins, 2008 reissue)
  • Every Thing On It (HarperCollins, 2011) (postuum gepubliceerd)
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