Little Willow ([info]slayground) wrote,
@ 2006-09-29 06:35:00
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Poetry Friday: How Not to Have to Dry the Dishes
If you have to dry the dishes
(Such an awful boring chore)
If you have to dry the dishes
('Stead of going to the store)
If you have to dry the dishes
And you drop one on the floor
Maybe they won't let you
Dry the dishes anymore

- How Not to Have to Dry the Dishes by Shel Silverstein

I selected this poem in honor of Banned Books Week.

In 1985, Silverstein's poetry collection A Light in the Attic was challenged at the Cunningham Elementary School in Beloit, Wisconsin because the aforementioned poem "encourages children to break dishes so they won't have to dry them." I think that if children or adults feel the need to break dishes after reading that poem, they ought to read Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle books by Patricia McDonald and/or attend a wedding ceremony at which breaking dishes is a tradition.


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[info]tamra_wight
2006-09-29 01:47 pm UTC (link)
Love it!

(Hmmmmm . . . I wonder . . . )

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[info]slayground
2006-09-29 02:14 pm UTC (link)
:)

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[info]tlace
2006-09-29 02:55 pm UTC (link)
I love that you chose Shel Silverstein because his work is amazing! As a child, I read A Light in the Attic, The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends so many times I probably wore through the pages. I list The Giving Tree as my favorite book of all time.

Oh, and I never, EVER, tried to get out of dishes by breaking them :D

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[info]slayground
2006-09-29 03:27 pm UTC (link)
Aw.

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[info]new_toy
2006-09-29 09:28 pm UTC (link)
Shel Silverstein is still a favorite, and THE reason I love to read to this day.


Ricky was "L" but he's home with the flu,
Lizzie, our "O" had some homework to do,
Mitchell,"E" prol'ly got lost on her way,
So I'm all of love that could make it today.

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[info]slayground
2006-09-29 09:35 pm UTC (link)
:)

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[info]jenniferechols
2006-09-29 09:35 pm UTC (link)
I've been reading Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle to my disobedient child. He pretends not to get it.

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[info]slayground
2006-09-29 09:47 pm UTC (link)
I love those books. I hope that he does end up getting something out of them. I love using them for storytelling. Get them laughing and they won't notice that they're learning. :)

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