Showing Revision 5 created 12/10/2013 by Cory Bowles.

1. Pavadinimas:
   Interview with Shel Silverstein (part 1 of 2)
2. Apibudinimas:

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   [SHELL] And uh, many of my little friends have asked old Uncle Shelby
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   why he has written this book and why he loves children so dearly. And to these I
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   must answer, although old Uncle Shelby has never
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   blessed with children of his own, little ones have always had a
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   very special place in his tired old heart.
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   Yes, I have heard them crying late at night and
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   I have though about them. I have heard them playing and laughing outside my window while
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    I was trying to sleep and I have thought about them.
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    I have seen the pictures they have drawn on my car and I have
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    thought and thought and thought about them. and so this book, to help
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    help my little friends get all the things in life
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    they so richly deserve.
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    [STUDS] This is a preface, to a rather unusual children's book, it's called:
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    Uncle Shelby's ABZ Book For Children. And our guest this morning, the author
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    , how do we describe him? He is a triple threat man. He is an author,
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    cartoonist, traveler, at the moment entertainer at the Gate of Horn.
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    Shell Silvertein who liner notes I have read and unfortunately
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    I have not yet seen, but have read some of his writings
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    and seen some of his cartoons, and have heard about him from mutual friends
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    who opinions I respect. And so delighted, Shell, to have you as a guest this morning.
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    [SHELL] Well, its really my pleasure to be here Studs.
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    More than any other interview I've ever had, really, in all honesty
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    'cause I admire your stuff so very much.
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    [STUDS]I should make it clear, thank you, that you
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    are from Chicago originally. Since you started
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    reading the preface to this book, this is talked about a great deal.
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    People now talk, this book, the ABZ Book For Children.
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    'Pose you tell us about this book?
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    [SHELL] Well, ah, first of all it's not for children, you know.
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    It's a book for children, but you better keep it away
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    from children really. Its for adults, for people that have children.
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    It's for teeneagers, they seem to go for it quite a bit.
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    It's for kids that are, just, maybe oh, past ten years old.
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    They'd probably get a big kick out of it.
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    And uh, it's not in the usual form of the "A" if for apple
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    "B" is for Baby stuff, you know?
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    Only it's a little different, it tells kids to do real rotten, crummy things,
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    you know? It tells them to, uh, eat a lot of green apples
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    and, you know, dig a hole and bury their sister in it
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    and it tells them to throw an egg up to the ceiling
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    and the giant in the ceiling will reach down and catch the egg. Things like that.
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    [STUDS] Things like that. Gentle though?
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    [SHELL] Gentle [laughing]
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    [STUDS]"'B' is for Baby", and this is from Shell's, Uncle Shelby's book,
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    "'B' is for Baby. Picture the baby. The baby is fat. The baby is pretty.
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    Play baby play. See the baby play. Play baby play.
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    The baby can cry, the baby can laugh. Pretty pretty baby.