I met a ghost, but he didn’t want my head, 1 Shel Silverstein, A Light in the Attic (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1981), 12. Out of 130 poems in the book, A Light in the Attic, here are the most controversial ones:ĭry the dishes anymore. It was banned in a Florida school in 1993 and challenged in other US schools throughout the 1980s and 90s because the poems were seen as promoting disobedience, violence, suicide, Satan and even cannibalism.

O for objectification: When a woman allows men to use her.

Women in 19th-century novels: Rebellious wives had to die!.

Why Marx attacked rival socialists as ‘reactionary’ and ‘utopian’?.

Building Utopia: The most important pre-Marx socialists.

The Communist Manifesto in 35 historical photos.

When “flower children” spurred kids to abandon childhood.

In Britain ‘it is good to kill an admiral from time to time’.

Why Voltaire mocked Canada as ‘a few acres of snow’?.

Voltaire’s radical views on race and slavery.

The Sorrows of Young Werther: These passages inspired suicide.

Roald Dahl’s The Witches: The paragraphs critics called sexist.

A Wrinkle in Time: Is it blasphemous or too Christian?.

The Jihadi Manifesto: Sayyid Qutb’s Milestones.A Farewell to Arms: All the dirty words you won’t find in the novel.Ars amatoria: Controversial advice on sex and date rape from Rome.Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret: Why was it banned?.A Light in the Attic: Controversial poems.Code Noir: Read the ‘humane’ laws written to protect slaves.The Metamorphosis: The final scene is more disturbing than the first.Portnoy’s Complaint: A guide to the filthiest and funniest Jewish novel.Why Italy banned Hemingway’s novel A Farewell to Arms?.What does the Communist Manifesto actually say?.The Little Red Schoolbook: The challenging passages on education.Story of O: The sadomasochistic passages.You will talk with Broiled Face, and find out what happens when Somebody steals your knees, you get caught by the Quick-Digesting Gink, a Mountain snores, and They Put a Brassiere on the Camel.Ĭome on up to the attic of Shel Silverstein and let the light bring you home.Īnd don't miss these other Shel Silverstein ebooks, The Giving Tree, Where the Sidewalk Ends, and Falling Up!

Here in the attic you will find Backward Bill, Sour Face Ann, the Meehoo with an Exactlywatt, and the Polar Bear in the Frigidaire. This digital edition also includes twelve poems previously only available in the special edition hardcover.Ī Light in the Attic delights with remarkable characters and hilariously profound poems in a collection readers will return to again and again. From New York Times bestselling author Shel Silverstein, the creator of the beloved poetry collections Where the Sidewalk Ends, Falling Up, and Every Thing On It, comes an imaginative book of poems and drawings-a favorite of Shel Silverstein fans young and old.

A light in the attic list of poems