The Missing Piece

By: Shel Silverstein

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Hardcover | 14 April 1976

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Hardcover
112 Pages

Age
4 - 8

Grade
3 - 6

Dimensions(cm)
22 x 19 x 2.5

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From Shel Silverstein, the celebrated author of The Giving Tree and Where the Sidewalk Ends, comes The Missing Piece, a charming fable that gently probes the nature of quest and fulfillment.

It was missing a piece. And it was not happy. What it finds on its search for the missing piece is simply and touchingly told. This inventive and heartwarming book can be read on many levels, and Silverstein’s iconic drawings and humor are sure to delight fans of all ages.

So it set off in search
of its missing piece.
And as it rolled
it sang this song—
Oh I''m lookin'' for my missin'' piece
I''m lookin'' for my missin'' piece
Hi-dee-ho, here I go,
Lookin'' for my missin'' piece.

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Industry Reviews

The journey, not the arrival matters. . . to the extent that once Silverstein's freehand circular "it" finds the pie-shaped missing piece it's been seeking all along, it decides to do without it - for when the wedge-like gap that had functioned as a sort of mouth is filled in, "it" is unable to sing. The whole fable bears more resemblance to a Pfeiffer cartoon than to the fat book it appears on the outside; the "mouth" and a dot for an eye are all that make "it" a creature of sorts, and there's nothing else on the bare white pages but the line it rolls along, the small scale butterfly, flower, etc., it encounters on the way, and the various other "pieces" it tries before finding the perfect one. However, the very childlike sparseness of words and lines at least leaves room for application without forcing any - and we'll take "its" approach to life over that of Silverstein's Giving Tree any day. (Kirkus Reviews)

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