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Books with author Sid Silverstein

  • The Radioactive Boy Scout: The True Story of a Boy and His Backyard Nuclear Reactor

    Ken Silverstein

    Hardcover (Random House, March 2, 2004)
    Growing up in suburban Detroit, David Hahn was fascinated by science, and his basement experiments—building homemade fireworks, brewing moonshine, and concocting his own self-tanning lotion—were more ambitious than those of other boys. While working on his Atomic Energy badge for the Boy Scouts, David’s obsessive attention turned to nuclear energy. Throwing caution to the wind, he plunged into a new project: building a nuclear breeder reactor in his backyard garden shed.In The Radioactive Boy Scout, veteran journalist Ken Silverstein recreates in brilliant detail the months of David’s improbable nuclear quest. Posing as a physics professor, David solicited information on reactor design from the U.S. government and from industry experts. (Ironically, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission was his number one source of information.) Scavenging antiques stores and junkyards for old-fashioned smoke detectors and gas lanterns—both of which contain small amounts of radioactive material—and following blueprints he found in an outdated physics textbook, David cobbled together a crude device that threw off toxic levels of radiation. His unsanctioned and wholly unsupervised project finally sparked an environmental catastrophe that put his town’s forty thousand residents at risk and caused the EPA to shut down his lab and bury it at a radioactive dumpsite in Utah.An outrageous account of ambition and, ultimately, hubris that sits comfortably on the shelf next to such offbeat science books as Driving Mr. Albert and stories of grand capers like Catch Me If You Can, The Radioactive Boy Scout is a real-life adventure with the narrative energy of a first-rate thriller.
  • The Poems and Drawings of Shel Silverstein

    Shel Silverstein

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, Oct. 1, 2002)
    A slipcase boxed set of three classic Silverstein works includes The Giving Tree, A Light in the Attic, and Falling Up.
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  • A Light in the Attic th Anniversary Edition CD

    Shel Silverstein

    Audio CD (Sony Music Special Products, )
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  • A Light in the Attic

    Shel Silverstein

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, Jan. 1, 1857)
    First printing does not look opened or read Mint hardback with dustjacket
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  • Lafcadio. the Lion Who Shot Back

    Shel Silverstein

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, Aug. 16, 1998)
    A classic by Shel S.
  • Different Dances

    Shel Silverstein

    Hardcover (Harpercollins, Aug. 1, 1979)
    This collection of Silverstein's startling, irreverent, and provocative cartoons satirizes the social absurdities and calamities of the adult world, covering the misalliances, misconceptions, and misdemeanors of contemporary life
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  • Runny Babbit Book and Abridged CD

    Shel Silverstein

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, Sept. 26, 2006)
    From the legendary creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and The Giving Tree comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature: Runny Babbit.Runny Babbit is Shel Silverstein's hilarious and New York Times-bestselling book of spoonerisms—words or phrases with letters or syllables swapped: bunny rabbit becomes Runny Babbit. This edition comes with a CD featuring 12 delightful readings from the book.Welcome to the world of Runny Babbit and his friends Toe Jurtle, Skertie Gunk, Rirty Dat, Dungry Hog, Snerry Jake, and many others who speak a topsy-turvy language all their own.So if you say, "Let's bead a rookThat's billy as can se,"You're talkin' Runny Babbit talk,Just like mim and he.And don't miss Runny Babbit Returns, the new book from Shel Silverstein!
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  • The Missing Piece

    Shel Silverstein

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, Jan. 1, 1995)
    Hardcover Publisher: HarperCollins; 1st edition (1995) Language: English ISBN-10: 0590257617 ISBN-13: 978-0590257619 Product Dimensions: 8.6 x 7.1 x 0.6 inches Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
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  • Uncle Shelby's Stoy of Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back

    Shel: Silverstein, Shel Silverstein

    Hardcover (Harper & Row, March 15, 1963)
    Shel Silverstein's first children's book, Lafcadio, the Lion Who Shot Back-a whimsical tale of self-discovery and marshmallows-is turning fifty with a return to a vintage full-color cover. Is a famous, successful, and admired lion a happy lion? Or is he a lion at all? Written and drawn with wit and gusto, Shel Silverstein's modern fable speaks not only to children but to us all! First published in 1963, this book had rave reviews from the New York Times, Time magazine, and Publishers Weekly, as well as a starred review from Kirkus. Now celebrating its fiftieth anniversary, Lafcadio is being reissued
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  • The Missing Piece

    Shel Silverstein

    Library Binding (HarperCollins, April 14, 1976)
    From Shel Silverstein, the celebrated author of The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends, comes The Missing Piece, a charming fable that gently probes the nature of quest and fulfillment.It was missing a piece. And it was not happy. What it finds on its search for the missing piece is simply and touchingly told. This inventive and heartwarming book can be read on many levels, and Silverstein’s iconic drawings and humor are sure to delight fans of all ages.So it set off in searchof its missing piece.And as it rolledit sang this song— Oh I'm lookin' for my missin' pieceI'm lookin' for my missin' pieceHi-dee-ho, here I go,Lookin' for my missin' piece.And don't miss Runny Babbit Returns, the new book from Shel Silverstein!
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  • The Missing Piece by Silverstein. Shel

    Shel Silverstein

    Hardcover (Harpercollins, Aug. 16, 1976)
    It was missing a piece. And it was not happy. So it set off in search of its missing piece. And as it rolled it sang this song - Oh I'm lookin' for my missin' piece I'm lookin' for my missin' piece Hi-dee-ho, here I go, Lookin' for my missin' piece. What it finds on its search for the missing piece is simply and touchingly told in this fable that gently probes the nature of quest and fulfillment.
  • Falling Up

    Shel Silverstein

    Hardcover (Harper Collins Publishers, Jan. 1, 1996)
    This book is missing the jacket. Their is a space where their was a sticker torn off of the first page. (like a name tag.) Otherwise, this text is in perfect condition.
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