* Note to Shel Silverstein fans: “Every Thing On It,” a new book of Shel Silverstein poems and drawings, unpublished until now, was released last month. Click here to read an excerpt! (© 2011 ...

Fun fact: Silverstein won a Grammy in 1970 for writing the poem "Boy Named Sue," which, of course, Cash sang in California's San Quentin State Prison in 1969. It became one of his biggest hits.

When Gibson moved to California, Shel followed and started a love affair with the Golden State that lasted his whole life, leading him to settle for years at a time on his houseboat in Sausalito.

Books for children often are preachy or cloying, with characters always progressing in virtue and endings always happy. Author Shel Silverstein, who died Monday at 68, was never guilty of those sin… ...

Rather, Silverstein, to be frank, burst the eardrums of listeners with his high-pitched nasally voice. It’s as if Bob Dylan and Steven Tyler created a vocal love child.

However, Silverstein is more than a kiddy author, even if that's what most of us love about the late poet and illustrator. He had an adult side, too (which has nothing to do with the cartoons he ...

WOOSTER, Ohio – Marcy Campbell penned her new book “The More You Give” in response to Shel Silverstein’s popular, divisive children’s book “The Giving Tree.” Published by Knopf ...