the book's titular poem in part because of the lively art that accompanied it. A boy--who has asked for a hot dog with "everything on it"--holds a bun piled sky high with a basketball hoop, a snake, a hat, an umbrella, you name it."If you look at [Silverstein's] other books, the title was part of the artwork," Markiet explains. "To him, typography and layout was part of the whole. The art is wonderful. I mean, you look at it and you wonder: What is he doing with all that stuff on a hot dog? It makes you want to turn [the page.]"
Every Thing On It
from NPR: Shel Silverstein's Poems Live On In 'Every Thing'
then The Atlantic: Shel Silverstein Comes Alive in a New Book, 12 Years After His Death
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