Falling Up is a collection of poems by Shel Silverstein. It was first published by HarperCollins in 1996. The poems for children are accompanied by illustrations also created by Shel Silverstein.
List of poems[]
In 2006, a special 10th Anniversary Edition was published, which included 12 new poems (listed in bold).
| Title | Page # |
|---|---|
| Advice | 018 |
| Allison Beals and Her 25 Eels | 098 |
| Alphabalance | 063 |
| Bad Cold | 061 |
| Battle in the Sky | 100 |
| Best Mask? | 139 |
| Big Eating Contest | 052 |
| Bituminous? | 134 |
| Blood-Curdling Story | 138 |
| A Board on the Ocean | 182 |
| Body Language | 160 |
| Camp Wonderful | 142 |
| Carrots | 105 |
| Castle | 171 |
| A Cat, a Kid, and a Mom | 104 |
| Cat Jacks | 137 |
| Cereal | 042 |
| Christmas Dog | 132 |
| Clean Gene | 152 |
| Closet Full of Shoes | 118 |
| Complainin’ Jack | 009 |
| Cookwitch Sandwich | 125 |
| Crazy Dream | 168 |
| Crystal Ball | 017 |
| Dancin’ in the Rain | 108 |
| Danny O'Dare | 031 |
| Deadly Eye | 037 |
| Dentist Dan | 130 |
| Description | 078 |
| Diving Board | 024 |
| Don the Dragon's Birthday | 054 |
| Eggs Rated | 149 |
| Every Lunchtime | 096 |
| Falling Up | 007 |
| Feeding Time | 106 |
| Folks Inside | 144 |
| Foot Repair | 056 |
| Forgetful Paul Revere | 122 |
| Former Foreman's Story | 163 |
| Four Criers | 180 |
| Furniture Bash | 032 |
| Gardener | 068 |
| Glub-Glub | 091 |
| Golden Goose | 092 |
| Gymnasties | 175 |
| Hand Holding | 072 |
| Hard to Please | 074 |
| Haunted | 094 |
| Headless Town | 121 |
| Headphone Harold | 161 |
| Help! | 146 |
| Hi-Monster | 127 |
| Human Balloon | 123 |
| Hungry Kid Island | 165 |
| Hypnotized | 083 |
| Ice Cream Stop | 051 |
| Imagining | 041 |
| In the Land of... | 170 |
| James | 115 |
| Kanga Ruby | 097 |
| Keepin' Count | 131 |
| Keep-Out House | 145 |
| Little Hoarse | 029 |
| Little Pig's Treat | 013 |
| Long-Leg Lou and Short-Leg Sue | 035 |
| Long Scarf | 073 |
| Lyin' Larry | 109 |
| Making a Friend | 177 |
| Mari-Lou's Ride | 039 |
| Medusa | 069 |
| Mirror, Mirror | 088 |
| Mister Moody | 095 |
| Molly's Folly | 157 |
| Morgan's Curse | 022 |
| Mummy | 102 |
| Music Lesson | 135 |
| My Nose Garden | 086 |
| My Robot | 036 |
| My Sneaky Cousin | 028 |
| The Nap Taker | 140 |
| Needles and Pins | 023 |
| New World | 062 |
| No | 117 |
| No Grown-Ups | 113 |
| No Thank You | 021 |
| Noise Day | 026 |
| Nope | 019 |
| Obedient | 090 |
| The Octopus | 185 |
| Ooh! | 136 |
| One Out of Sixteen | 120 |
| People Zoo | 080 |
| Pilla Fight | 178 |
| Pinocchio | 046-47 |
| Plugging In | 008 |
| The Poet Tree | 187 |
| Poison-Tester | 129 |
| Porky | 114 |
| Punctuation | 181 |
| Quality Time | 143 |
| Rainglasses | 184 |
| Reachin' Richard | 093 |
| Red Flowers for You | 085 |
| Remote-a-Dad | 112 |
| Rotten Convention | 067 |
| Runners | 110 |
| Sack Race | 147 |
| Safe? | 025 |
| Scale | 012 |
| Screamin' Millie | 044 |
| Settin' Around | 084 |
| Shanna in the Sauna | 103 |
| Sharing | 050 |
| Shoe Talk | 079 |
| Short Kid | 101 |
| Show Fish | 106 |
| Sidewalking | 043 |
| Smile Makers | 158 |
| Snowball | 011 |
| Somethin' New | 156 |
| Sorry I Spilled It | 124 |
| Spoiled Brat | 089 |
| Stone Airplane | 049 |
| Stork Story | 166 |
| Strange Restaurant | 064 |
| Stupid Pencil Maker | 060 |
| Sun Hat | 010 |
| Sybil the Magician's Last Show | 066 |
| Tattooin' Ruth | 045 |
| Tell Me | 154 |
| The Bear, the Fire, and the Snow | 055 |
| The Gnome, the Gnat, and the Gnu | 071 |
| The Human Race | 176 |
| The Monkey | 040 |
| The Tongue Sticker-Outer | 082 |
| The Toy Eater | 077 |
| The Voice | 038 |
| They Say I Have... | 075 |
| Three O'Clock | 126 |
| Three Stings | 148 |
| Trombone Lesson | 174 |
| Turkey? | 034 |
| Unfair | 014 |
| Use for a Mouse | 155 |
| Warmhearted | 059 |
| Wastebasket Brother | 016 |
| Weavers | 119 |
| Web-Foot Woe | 053 |
| Weird-Bird | 048 |
| We're Out of Paint, So... | 070 |
| When I Was Your Age | 159 |
| Why Is It? | 033 |
| Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda | 065 |
| Writer Waiting | 058 |
| Yawn! | 176 |
| Yuck | 151 |
See also[]
Shel Silverstein poetry collections:
- Where the Sidewalk Ends (1974)
- A Light in the Attic (1981)
- Falling Up (1996)
- Every Thing On It (2011)