One was a collection of poetry, Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein.

一本是诗集，谢尔·西尔弗斯坦的《人行道的尽头》。

Shel Silverstein died of heart failure in nineteen ninety-nine. He was sixty-eight years old.

谢尔·西尔弗斯坦于1999年死于心力衰竭。享年六十八岁。

Shel Silverstein once said that he wanted to go everywhere, look at and listen to everything.

谢尔·西尔弗斯坦曾表示，他想去任何地方，去看、去倾听任何事情。

So he started to draw and write. Shel Silverstein said he developed his own way of writing.

于是他开始画画和写作。谢尔·西尔弗斯坦说，他发展了自己的写作方式。

Shel Silverstein served in the United States Army in the early nineteen fifties.

谢尔·希尔弗斯坦在20世纪50年代早期在美国陆军服役。

Shel Silverstein was also a musician. He released his first album in nineteen fifty-nine. It is called Hairy Jazz.

谢尔·希尔弗斯坦也是一位音乐家。他于1959年发行了自己的第一张专辑。专辑名为《毛茸爵士》。

One year later, Shel Silverstein published what may be his most popular book. It is called The Giving Tree.

一年后，谢尔·西尔弗斯坦出版了可能是他最受欢迎的书。此书名为《给予之树》。

Shel Silverstein is also famous for his poetry. His first children's poetry book was Where the Sidewalk Ends.

谢尔·西尔弗斯坦也因他的诗歌而著名。他的第一部儿童诗歌作品是《人行道的尽头》。

Shel Silverstein once told a reporter that when he was growing up, he wanted to be a good baseball player.

谢尔·希尔弗斯坦曾告诉一个记者，当他长大的时候，他想成为一个优秀的棒球运动员。

Shel Silverstein is best known for his books for children. However, people of all ages like his poems and stories.

谢尔·西尔弗斯坦最著名的作品是儿童读物。然而，各个年龄段的人都喜欢他的诗歌和故事。

Shel Silverstein wrote hundreds of poems and published many books. He is most famous as a writer of books for children.

谢尔·希尔弗斯坦写作了成百上千诗歌，出版了很多书。他最著名的是写作儿童书籍。

In the nineteen seventies, Shel Silverstein produced music for several movies. His first movie soundtrack was for the film Ned Kelly.

在20世纪70年代，谢尔·西尔弗斯坦为几部电影创作了音乐。他的第一张电影原声带是为电影《奈德·凯利》配乐的。

I'm Keith Carradine, and today I'm going to be reading 'The Giving Tree' by Shel Silverstein.

我是基思·卡拉丁，今天我要读谢尔·西尔弗斯坦的《捐赠树》。

Some of his works were released after his death. Shel Silverstein once said: I would hope that people, no matter what age, would find something to identify with in my books.

在谢尔去世后，他的一些作品被发行了。谢尔·西尔弗斯坦曾表示，" 我希望人们，无论年龄多大，都能在我的书中找到一些可以认同的东西。"

In 1974, a popular American poet by the name of Shel Silverstein wrote a poem called " Paul Bunyan, " which he included in a collection of children's poems called " Where the Sidewalk Ends."

1974 年，一位名叫谢尔·西尔弗斯坦 (Shel Silverstein) 的美国著名诗人写了一首名为《保罗·班扬 (Paul Bunyan)》的诗， 他将这首诗收录在名为《人行道尽头的地方》的儿童诗集中。