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ollieander 's review for:
A Light in the Attic
by Shel Silverstein
I picked this up because I saw them around so much. From childhood to now, these books are still selling on the shelves so they've acquired a "classic" status I guess, and that intrigued me.
As a child I was not a fan of nonsensical rhymes and the like, so even looking through my younger lens I can't higher the ranking on this. Some of them flowed easier than others. Some were genuinely cute and enjoyable while others felt more like the elaboration on an idea Silverstein had and followed through on putting in the book because it's a kids poem and the content doesn't matter as much.
The art style is simple, gritty, and almost "intentionally ugly" in its use of ragged lines and accentuated undesirable features. I get that, I do. Some of the drawings however, even in that, had a laughable lack of care put into them (#1 being the street light) and there was quite a bit of nightmare fuel. Not for me, as an adult or a kid.
As a child I was not a fan of nonsensical rhymes and the like, so even looking through my younger lens I can't higher the ranking on this. Some of them flowed easier than others. Some were genuinely cute and enjoyable while others felt more like the elaboration on an idea Silverstein had and followed through on putting in the book because it's a kids poem and the content doesn't matter as much.
The art style is simple, gritty, and almost "intentionally ugly" in its use of ragged lines and accentuated undesirable features. I get that, I do. Some of the drawings however, even in that, had a laughable lack of care put into them (#1 being the street light) and there was quite a bit of nightmare fuel. Not for me, as an adult or a kid.