Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
Jack Prelutsky Quotes
I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
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| Birth: | 8th September, 1940 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Poet |
About
Jack Prelutsky was born in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He is an American writer of children's poetry. He studied at The High School of Music & Art and Hunter College, Manhattan, New York City. He has written more than 50 poetry collections, including Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep, It's Halloween, The Mean Old Mean Hyena, and Something BIG Has Been Here. He has also set his poems to music on the audio versions of his anthologies. He appeared on the popular animated television series Arthur, in the episode "I'm a Poet." In 2006, the Poetry Foundation named Prelutsky the inaugural winner of the Children's Poet Laureate award. He married Carolynn in 1979.
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