Jack Prelutsky
Jack Prelutsky
Jack Prelutskyis an American writer of children's poetry. He lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife, Carolynn...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth8 September 1940
CountryUnited States of America
poet
A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are.
looks language
I look for poetry in English because it's the only language I read.
writing challenges done
I accept challenges, I have always done that in writing.
writing opportunity play
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
writing black-and-white littles
The BALLPOINT PENGUINS, black and white, Do little else but write and write. Although they've nothing much to say, They write and write it anyway....
book writing differences
There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.
book teaching reading
My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.
poet dylan allan-poe
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
halloween blood black
His blood is black and boiling hot, he gurgles ghastly groans. He'll cook you in his dinner pot, your skin, your flesh, your bones.
ideas two drawing
After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.