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Where the Sidewalk Ends

Shel Silverstein

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Something that has stuck with me for my entire life is my mother reading me poetry as a child, in particular - The Cremation Of Sam McGee by Robert W. Service - The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes - Forgiven and King John's Christmas by A. A. Milne - Called Up by Dudley Clarke (not sure how good that one is to everyone, I'm just incredibly nostalgic for it.) It gave me a lifelong love of rhyming and word games, one I've always been happy to have. Yours might still be a bit young for that, but other more age-appropriate stuff would work just as well. Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light In The Attic by Shell Silverstein are fantastic. Oh man, wait, also Robert Munsch. Equally wonderful memories with some of those (Love You Forever is in my opinion, really great from the lens of a kid, and it's silly to read it through the eyes of an adult. The intended message is very obviously that your parental love will always be with your child. It also introduced me to the idea of caring for my parents someday as something I would have to consider, and something I would want to do).…

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