Shel Silverstein

As someone who enjoys reading ( as you can most likely tell from the amount of books I talk about), I like to pretend that I read everything, no discrimination, equal opportunity literature enthusiast. But that really isn't the case.

One genre that I continually avoid is children's books. I associate them with small children, something that I am not, and avoid them like the ten page paper I should be working on right now. However, there are many things to be learned from children's literature. Today, I have pulled from Shel Silverstein, whose poems are extraordinarily deep yet simple at the same time. Take a look.