Jack Prelutsky





Jack Prelutsky

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September 08, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York, The United States

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Jack Prelutsky is an American poet. He attended New York public schools, and later the High School of Music and Art and Hunter College. Prelutsky, who has also worked as a busboy, furniture mover, folk singer, and cab driver, claims that he hated poetry in grade school because of the way it was taught. He is the author of more than 30 poetry collections including Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep< and A Pizza the Size of the Sun. He has also compiled countless children's anthologies comprised of poems of others'. Jack Prelutsky was married to Von Tre Venefue, a woman he had met in France. They divorced in 1995, but Jack remarried. He currently lives in Washington state with his wife, Carolyn. He befriended a gay poet named Espiritu...more


Average rating: 4.03 · 7,579 ratings · 1,117 reviews · 84 distinct works
The New Kid on the Block
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Hooray For Diffendoofer Day!
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A Pizza the Size of the Sun
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Something Big Has Been Here
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It's Raining Pigs and Noodles
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Behold the Bold Umbrellapha...
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Scranimals
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“I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.
I don't don't know why know why,
I simply know that I I I
am am inclined to say to say
a lot a lot this way this way-
I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.

I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.
My mom my mom gets mad gets mad,
it irritates my dad my dad,
it drives them up a tree a tree,
that's what they tell they tell me me-
I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.

I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.
It gets me in a jam a jam,
but that's the way I am I am,
in fact I think it's neat it's neat
to to to to repeat repeat-
I often repeat repeat myself,
I often repeat repeat.”
Jack Prelutsky, A Pizza the Size of the Sun

“A poet is not something you become; a poet is something you are.”
Jack Prelutsky

“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....”
Jack Prelutsky, Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant: And Other Poems

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