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Silverstein's editor at Harper & Row, Ursula Nordstrom, encouraged Silverstein to write children's poetry.
Silverstein said that he never studied the poetry of others and therefore developed his own quirky style, laid back and conversational, occasionally employing profanity and slang.
In the 1975 Publishers Weekly interview, he was asked how he came to do children's books:
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