Jack+Prelutsky

Jack Prelutsky ** Jack Prelutsky used to hate poetry because his teacher said it was equal to liver. Instead he was a photographer and a truck driver. He loved carpentry, creating games and collecting art. He was born in Brooklyn NY on September 8, 1940. He is married to Carolyn and has no children.
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Jack Prelutsky was named the poet laureate for kids and got a $25,000 prize for it. He gets his ideas from everywhere. He can find an idea from toys even spaghetti. He was inspired by Susan Hirschman an editor that saw his poems and recommended that he should be a published poet.

Jack works in a studio at his house with a desk, computer, library, references, children’s literature and a frog collection.

Prelutsky, Jack. Awful Ogres Awful Day Singapore: Greenwillow Books, 2001. __ Poets.org - Poetry, Poems, Bios & More __. 27 May 2009 .