Themes In A Light In The Attic

This book is full of poems about clowns pirates monsters and all manner of strange people and animals doing crazy things.

Themes in a light in the attic.

This classic collection of poems and drawings features an assortment of characters including almost perfect mary hume and the turnable twistable man. Ok the theme for the light in the attic is imagination. In light verse shel silverstein delivers both a moral lesson and mischief. Shel silverstein s poems exist within the same timeless canon of children s classics as where the wild things are james and the giant peach and alice in wonderland like an edward gorey illustration come to life this wonderfully imaginative collection of poems songs and post 60s hippie rhetoric bristles with unguarded enthusiasm and willy wonka esque grandstanding.

I am only 12 years old so don t get mad at me if i got it wrong. The poems for children are accompanied by illustrations also created by shel silverstein. It was first published by harper row in 1981. I know you people wanted some1 to answer this.

A light in the attic is a collection of poems by the american poet writer and children s author shel silverstein.