Scott Simon speaks with Daniel Pinkwater, Weekend Edition's ambassador to kiddie literature, about Shel Silverstein, the children's author, who died this week [May 15, 1999].
Six years after Silverstein's death, there's a new CD with some of his best-known poems and songs. And there's a book, Runny Babbit, a collection of previously unpublished poems made up of spoonerisms, where the first parts of words are transposed.