Jack Prelutsky
Personal Information
Description
Jack Prelutsky was born in Brooklyn, New York. He began writing and illustrating poems in his early twenties and continues to write children's poetry today. He lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife.
Books
The Wizard
Young teen Able, previously transported to a magical world into the body of an adult hero, returns to Mythgarthr in possession of special powers that he has vowed he will not use in his service to the dragon king Anthor.
Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!
The students of Diffendoofer School celebrate their unusual teachers and curriculum, including Miss Fribble who teaches laughing, Miss Bonkers who teaches frogs to dance, and Mr. Katz who builds robotic rats.
Mamman och den vilda Bebin
Baby Ben gets into one difficulty after another, from which Mama rescues him--but not for long.
Beneath a blue umbrella
A collection of short humorous poems in which a hungry hippo raids a melon stand, a butterfly tickles a girl's nose, and children frolic in a Mardi Gras parade.
Halloween countdown
Count down from ten to one with mischievous ghosts who lead the reader to a spooky surprise ending.
What I did last summer
A boy describes his last day of school, adventures at the beach, a neighborhood baseball game, and other events of his summer.
The gargoyle on the roof
Presents poems about gargoyles, vampires, the bogeyman, gremlins, and other monsters.
The New Kid on the Block
Come and read a humorous American poetry. It is fun!
Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Copper Level
Read a Rhyme, Write a Rhyme
Segmented into ten subjects, a collection of "poemstarts" provides amusing beginnings to a series of poems and challenges readers to complete the tale in their own special way, enhanced with large text and bold illustrations. When Jack Prelutksy posted the first couplet of a funny poem on a Web site and invited children to finish it, he expected about 100 responses. He got thousands. Now he has come up with an anthology of poems on 10 popular subjects by well-known poets and combined it with his own (S2(Bpoemstarts.(S3(B Included with each poemstart are suggestions for various ways the reader might continue the poem. With large type and a big red stop sign, it is made abundantly clear that the reader get a pencil and paper to complete the poem. Jack Prelutsky has been credited with making poetry fun for children to read. Now he is making poetry fun for children to write! From the Hardcover edition
The Beauty of the Beast Poster
An illustrated collection of poems about animals, insects, and birds by poets from different parts of the world.
The 20th century children's poetry treasury
A collection of more than 200 poems by such modern poets as Nikki Grimes, John Ciardi, Karla Kuskin, Ted Hughes, e.e. cummings, Eve Merriam, Deborah Chandra, Arnold Adoff, and more than 100 others.