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HarperCollins has revealed the cover and title of a posthumously published Shel Silverstein poetry collection: Everything On It. The publisher will print one million copies of the September release.

Here’s more about the book: “With more than one hundred and thirty never-before-seen poems and drawings completed by the cherished American artist and selected by his family from his archives, this collection will follow in the tradition and format of his acclaimed poetry classics.”

Silverstein passed away in 1999, but his children’s poetry collections (Where the Sidewalk Ends and A Light in the Attic) have a dedicated audience. The poet, illustrator and songwriter hesitated to enter the children’s market until he met the legendary children’s editor Ursula Nordstrom and she convinced him to try.

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After a while every children's librarian suffers the effects of Alphabet Book Overdose. We here at the Donnell Central Children's Room have found that it's easy to deflect this sometimes fatal disease by restricting all alphabet titles to a single location in the library, thereby reducing their lethal propensities. Oh, one seems fine. But before you know it you read another... and another... and another ... Then the next thing you know you're flat on your back in an unfamiliar E.R. while the doctor attempts to bring you back to reality by asking how many fingers she's holding up (counting books have been found to significantly reduce the more dangerous properties of alphabet titles, it seems).

Now, however, there's a whole new game in town. Why not avoid books altogether and go the packaged meat route? Yum. Fry me up a load of Ms and Qs when you get a chance.

Thanks to Eric Berlin for the link.