The Best Books to Pass Down To Your Kids

Where The Sidewalk Ends
Shel Silverstein

"In third grade, I fell in love with Shel Silverstein's sense of humor in Where the Sidewalk Ends. The cover is now ripped and torn, and the pages are worn and stained, but I have never stopped reading it. When my son was a year old, my younger brother was sent to Iraq. He found a program for soldiers to record themselves reading a book to a loved one, and recorded himself reading some WTSE poems. In the beginning of the video he explains to my son that this book was his momma's favorite when she was little and that he used to sneak it from her so that he could read it also, which was the first I had ever heard. It brought tears to my eyes as I watched my son listen to every word and we followed along holding the same book my brother was holding in the video." -Rebecca, St. Augustine, FL

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