A Light in the Attic
By: Shel Silverstein
Genre: Poetry
Age Range: 6 - 8 years
Grade Level: 1 - 3
Hardcover: 176 pages
A light in the attic is a collection of poems that are funny, witty, dark, and supernatural. This book became part of a controversial due to the dark poems claiming that the poem "How Not To Have To Dry The Dishes" encourages messiness and disobedience. The other poem that caused controversy is "Little Abigail and the Beautiful Pony" which describes the death of a girl after her parents refuse to buy her a pony.
Poems
- A Light in the Attic
- How Many, How Much
- Moon-Catchin' Net
- Hammock
- How Not to Have to Dry the Dishes
- Stop Thief!
- The Sitter
- Prayer of the Selfish Child
- What Did?
- Shaking
- Signals
- Picture Puzzle Piece
- Put Something In
- Monsters I've Met
- Rock 'n' Roll Band
- Something Missing
- Memorizin' Mo
- Somebody Has to
- Reflection
- Fancy Dive
- Here Comes
- The Dragon of Grindly Grun
- Blame
- Messy Room
- Never
- Day After Halloween
- Wavy Hair
- Longmobile
- Backward Bill
- Mr. Smeds and Mr. Spats
- Snake Problem
- Bear in There
- Superstitious
- The Pirate
- Hurk
- Anchored
- Unscratchable Itch
- Squishy Touch
- Important?
- Thumb Face
- Eight Balloons
- Ations
- Musical Career
- Anteater
- Buckin' Bronco
- Snap!
- Overdues
- Wild Strawberries
- How to Make a Swing With No Rope or Board or Nails
- Gumeye Ball
- Hot Dog
- Adventures of a Frisbee
- Come Skating
- The Meehoo with an Exactlywatt
- Cloony the Clown
- Tryin' On Clothes
- Shapes
- Tired
- Prehistoric
- My Guitar
- Spelling Bee
- Always Sprinkle Pepper
- Peckin'
- It's Hot!
- Turtle
- Crowded Tub
- Channels
- Hippo's Hope
- Whatif
- Sour Face Ann
- The Climbers
- Rockabye
- The Little Boy and the Old Man
- Surprise!
- Ticklish Tom
- The Nailbiter
- The Fly Is In
- Strange Wind
- One Two
- Tusk, Tusk
- Captain Blackbeard Did What?
- Magic Carpet
- Outside or Underneath?
- It's All the Same to the Clam
- Hula Eel
- Bored
- Standing Is Stupid
- Who Ordered the Broiled Face?
- The Man in the Iron Pail Mask
- Gooloo
- Headache
- Quick Trip
- Little Abigail and the Beautiful Pony
- Hiccup Cure
- The Painter
- Nobody
- Zebra Question
- The Sword-Swallower
- Arrows
- The Toad and the Kangaroo
- Play Ball
- Friendship
- Poemsicle
- Senses
- Hinges
- Fear
- Batty
- Union for Children's Rights
- Hitting
- Deaf Donald
- Have Fun
- Dog's Day
- Skin Stealer
- Ladies First
- Frozen Dream
- The Lost Cat
- God's Wheel
- Shadow Race
- Clarence
- Rhino Pen
- Push Button
- Kidnapped!
- Suspense
- Dinner Guest
- In Search of Cinderella
- Almost Perfect
- Pie Problem
- The Oak and the Rose
- They've Put a Brassiere on the Camel
- This Bridge
Bibliography:
Silverstein, S. (2006). A light in the attic. New York, NY: Harper & Row.
Hi Charlotte! A great activity for this collection of poems, would be to have students try something that is mentioned in the poems and then have them write their own poem about it and share it with the class.
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