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Jack Prelutsky

Born

in Brooklyn, New York, The United States

September 08, 1940

Website

http://www.jackprelutsky.com

Genre

Poetry, Children's Books

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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 Sa ...more

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	The New Kid on the Block by Jack Prelutsky, James Stevenson (Illustrator) 4.06 avg rating — 10,902 ratings — published 1984 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Pizza the Size of the Sun 4.11 avg rating — 2,185 ratings — published 1996 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Random House Book of Poetry for Children by Jack Prelutsky, Arnold Lobel (Illustrator) 4.26 avg rating — 1,626 ratings — published 1983 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	It's Raining Pigs and Noodles by Jack Prelutsky, James Stevenson (Illustrator) 4.15 avg rating — 941 ratings — published 2000 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dragons are Singing Tonight by Jack Prelutsky, Peter Sís (Illustrator) 4.21 avg rating — 830 ratings — published 1993 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If Not for the Cat by Jack Prelutsky, Ted Rand (Illustrator) 4.04 avg rating — 528 ratings — published 2004 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scranimals by Jack Prelutsky, Peter Sís (Illustrator) 4.16 avg rating — 505 ratings — published 2002 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stardines Swim High Across the Sky: and Other Poems by Jack Prelutsky, Carin Berger (Illustrator) 3.90 avg rating — 524 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Parents Think I'm Sleeping (I Can Read Book 3) by Jack Prelutsky, Yossi Abolafia (Illustrator) 3.91 avg rating — 449 ratings — published 1985 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young by Jack Prelutsky (Compiler), Marc Brown (Illustrator) 4.13 avg rating — 414 ratings — published 1986 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Jack Prelutsky (?)

“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

tags: humor, poem, poetry, repeat

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

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“You’re nasty and you’re loud,
you’re mean enough for two,
If I could be a cloud,
I’d rain all day on you.”
― Jack Prelutsky

tags: cloud, funny, kids, mean

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