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Falling up : poems and drawings  Cover Image Book Book

Falling up : poems and drawings / by Shel Silverstein.

Silverstein, Shel,: (author,:, illustrator.).

Summary:

Millie McDeevit screamed a scream, so loud it made her eyebrows steam. She screamed so loud, her jawbone broke, Her tongue caught fire, her nostrils smoked...Poor Screamin' Millie is just one of the unforgettable characters in this wondrous new book of poems and drawings. Here you will also meet Allison Beals and her twenty-five eels; Danny O'Dare, the dancin' bear; the Human Balloon; and Headphone Harold.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0060248025
  • ISBN: 9780060248024
  • ISBN: 0060248033
  • ISBN: 9780060248031
  • ISBN: 0060513098
  • ISBN: 9780060513092
  • Physical Description: 171 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, N.Y. : HarperCollins Publishers, [1996]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Advice -- Allison Beals and her 25 eels -- Alphabalance -- Bad cold -- Battle in the sky -- Bear, the fire, and the snow -- Best mask? -- Big eating contest -- Bituminous? -- Blood-curdling story -- Body language -- Camp wonderful -- Carrots -- Castle -- Cat, a kid and a mom -- Cat jacks -- Cereal -- Christmas dog -- Glean Gene -- Closet full of shoes -- Complainin' Jack -- Cookwitch sandwich -- Crazy dream -- Crystal ball -- Dancin' in the rain -- Danny O'Dare -- Deadly eye -- Dentist Dan -- Description -- Diving board -- Don the Dragon's birthday -- Eggs rated -- Every lunchtime -- Falling up -- Feeding time -- Folks inside -- Foot repair -- Forgetful Paul Revere -- Former foreman's story -- Furniture bash -- Gardener -- Glub, glub -- Gnome, the gnat, and the gnu --Golden Goose -- Hand holding -- Hard to please -- Haunted -- Headless town -- Headphone Harold -- Help! -- Hi-monster -- Human balloon -- Hungry kid island -- Hypnotized -- Ice cream stop -- Imagining -- In the land of -- James -- Kanga Ruby -- Keepin' count -- Keep-out house -- Little hoarse -- Little pig's treat -- Long-Leg Lou and Short-Leg Sue -- Long scarf -- Lyin' Larry -- Mari-Lou's ride -- Medusa -- Mirror, mirror -- Mister Moody -- Molly's folly -- Monkey -- Morgan's curse -- Mummy -- Music lesson -- My sneaky cousin -- My nose garden -- My robot -- Nap taker -- Needles and pins -- New world -- No -- No grown-ups -- No thank you -- Noise day -- Nope -- Obedient -- Ooh! -- One out of sixteen -- People zoo -- Pinocchio -- Plugging in -- Poison tester -- Porky -- Quality time -- Reachin' Richard -- Red flowers for you -- Remote-a-Dad --Rotten convention -- Runners -- Sack race -- Safe? -- Scale -- Screamin' Millie -- Settin' around -- Shanna in the sauna -- Sharing -- Shoe talk -- Short kid -- Show fish -- Sidewalking -- Smile makers -- Snowball -- Somethin' new -- Sorry I spilled it -- Spoiled brat -- Stone airplane -- Stork story -- Strange restaurant -- Stupid pencil maker -- Sun hat -- Sybil the Magician's last show -- Tattooin' Ruth -- Tell me -- They say I have -- Three O'Clock -- Three stings -- Tongue sticker-outer -- Toy eater -- Turkey? -- Unfair -- Use for a moose -- Voice -- Warmhearted -- Wastebasket brother -- Weavers -- Web-foot woe -- Weird-bird -- We're out of paint, so -- When I was your age -- Why is it? -- Woulda-coulda-shoulda -- Writer waiting -- Yuck.
Participant or Performer Note:
Drawings by Shel Silverstein.
Awards Note:
Maine Student Book Award, 1998.
Subject: Eels
Dancin' bear
Human Balloon
Genre: Children's poetry, American.
Humorous poetry.
Poetry.

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