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SHEL SILVERSTEIN

By VICTORIAPAV
  • BORN

    BORN

    HE WAS BORN IN..... HIS FULL NAME IS.......BUT IS KNOWN TO THE PUBLIC AS........

  • MUSIC

    AROUND THE AGE OF 12, HE STARTED PLAYING THE....

  • KOREAN WAR

    HE ENLISTED IN THE KOREAN WAR. AT THAT TIME HE WORKED AS A ............FOR THE 'PACIFIC STARS AND STRIPES'

  • AFTER THE MILITARY

    HE WAS HIRED AS A C..............

  • CHILDREN'S BOOKS

    HIS FRIEND, TOM UNGERER, PERSUADED HIM INTO WRITING C.............B........

  • THE GIVING TREE

    HE PUBLISHED THE BOOK 'THE GIVING TREE' ONE OF HIS MOST SUCCESSFUL BOOKS, EVEN THOUGH WILLIAM COLE, AN EDITOR, HAD REJECTED IT BECAUSE IT FELL BETWEEN THE .........

  • SONG WRITER

    HE ALSO BECAME A COUNTRY AND ROCK SONG WRITER. ONE OF HIS GREATEST HITS 'A B...........' WON A GRANNY AWARD

  • 'WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS'

    IN 1974 HE P...........ANOTHER OF HIS MOST SUCCESSFUL BOOKS

  • 'THE MISSING PIECE'

    THIS BOOK WAS A LITTLE 'DISTURBING' BECAUSE OF THE UNIQUE E............

  • 'A LIGHT IN THE ATTIC'

    IT WAS A COLLECTION OF P.......... AND DR............
    ANOTHER OF HIS MOST SUCCESSFUL BOOKS WAS 'THE M.......... PIECE M........THE B........O'

  • MOVIE

    SHEL COLABORATED WITH DAVID MAMET ON THE SCREENPLAY 'T............ C.........'

  • CO-WROTE A SOUNDTRACK

    SHEL CO-WROTE A SOUNDTRACK FOR THE FILM 'POSTCARDS ...................'

  • 'FALLING UP'

    THIS BOOK WAS PRAISED BY CR..........

  • DIED

    HE DIED IN 1999.
    HE HAD HIS OWN STYLE BECAUSE HE WAS NOT FAMILIAR WITH OTHER POETS AND DID NOT SEE THEIR WORK UNTIL HE WAS AROUND T.............