Fun collection of nonsense poetry for kids, enlivened by some truly entertaining drawings - I think I liked the art better than the poems, to be honest. The drawings reminded me a bit of Mervyn Peake, and his illustrations for his own similar verse collections. Peake's poems are I think a little more fantastic, a little sharper, and a little darker than these, though. Silverstein's tend to have an undertone of kindness that occasionally verges on sap, which is no surprise when you remember that he's the one that did that horrifying, hateful little book of self-sacrifice, The Giving Tree.