The Missing Piece"Yes, the artwork is simple, but that’s missing the point. The Missing Piece means even more to me as a college student then it did as a child. EVERYONE should read this book (along with its sequel The Missing Piece Meets the Big O) every 5 years. Together they are a testament to individualism, and the idea that life is in the journey, not the destination." - Amazon Review Here is the full text of the book: The Missing Piece by Shel Silverstein It was a missing piece and it was not happy.
So it set off in search of its missing piece.
And as it rolls, it sang this song:
Oh, I’m looking for my missing piece
I’m looking for my missing piece
Hi-dee-ho, here I go
lookin’ for my missin’ piece
Sometimes it baked in the Sun
But then the cool rain would come down
And sometimes it was frozen by the snow
But then the sun would come and warm it again
And because it was missing piece it could not roll very fast, so it would stop to talk to a worm
Or smell a flower
And sometimes it would pass a beetle
And sometimes the beetle would pass it
And this was the best time of all
And on it went over oceans
Oh, I’m looking for my missing piece
I’m looking for my missing piece
Hi-dee-ho, here I go
lookin’ for my missin’ piece
Through swamps and jungles
Up mountains
And down mountains
Until one day, lo and behold, I found my missing piece it sang
I found my missing piece
I found my missing piece
my missin’ piece
"Wait a minute", said the piece "before you go gracing your knees and placing your bees I am NOT your missing piece. I am nobody’s piece. I am my own piece and even if I was somebody’s missing piece I don’t think I’d be yours"
"Oh" It said sadly. "I’m sorry to have bothered you". And Don it rolled
And it found another piece
But this one was too small
And this one was too big
And this one was too sharp
And this one was too square
One time it seemed to have found the perfect piece
But it didn’t hold it tightly enough
And lost it
Another time it held too tightly
And it broke
So on and on it rolled
Having adventures
Falling into holes
And bumping into stone walls
And then one day came upon another piece that seemed to be just right
"Hi" it said.
"Hi" said the piece
"Are you anybody else’s missing piece?"
"Not that I know of"
"Well maybe want to be your own piece"
"I can be someone’s and still be in my own
"Maybe you don’t want to be mine"
"Maybe I do"
"Maybe we won’t fit"
"Well"
"Hmm"
It fit and it is perfectly at last at last
And it wildly rolled
And because it was now complete it rolled faster and faster, faster than ever had rolled before, so fast it could not stop to talk to a worm
Or smell a flower
Too fast for a butterfly to land
But it could sing its happy song. At last it could sing: I found my missing piece
And it began to sing
I found my missing piece
I found my missing piece
My missin’ piece
My now that was completed could not sing it all
Uh-huh I thought so that’s how to tease
So it’s not rolling
And it set the piece down gently
And it slowly rolled away and as it rolled away it softly sang
Oh, I’m looking for my missing piece
I’m looking for my missing piece
Hi-dee-ho, here I go
lookin’ for my missin’ piece
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Reading age: 2+
Word count: 609
Number of unique words: 176, Word list
Number of pages: 112
Year: 1976
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