Don’t Bump the Glump By Shel Silverstein

I loved Shel Silverstein when I was younger so when I found out that we were suppose to read poetry books I knew that a Shel Silverstein book would be one of the books I blogged about. I have never heard of Don’t Bump the Glump so I chose to read it. In true Silverstein style the poems in this book were kind of nonsense. A lot of words he wrote don’t make any sense but that is what makes his poetry fun. My favorite poem I read was titled, “Slithergadee.” It is a poem about how a creature called slithergadee won’t catch up with the narrator so the narrator almost begins to taunt him. Then the poem stops mid word making the reader assume the narrator got eaten by slithergadee. It’s a fun and silly book to pull out for a loud when there is some down time in the classroom.