Mike Gavin
Children’s Literature
11-24-‘02
The author that I would like to propose my
final project on is Shel Silverstein. This woman is responsible for making
many famous novels. I believe the importance of her literature relies on
the basis of feelings. Two of the novels that I will be exemplifying as a
resultant of my final project are the novels The Giving Tree and Where
the Sidewalk Ends.
The Giving Tree discusses the maturation process
of a young boy that grows to manhood and old age and a tree gives him gifts
without any thought of reciprocal trade. Where the Sidewalk Ends is
a humorous story that discusses the ideas of a boy turning into a television
set and a girl eating a whale as two of the many stories full of laughter
in the book.