Rainy Rainy Saturday

by Jack Prelutsky, Marylin Hafner

Fourteen humorous poems about the pleasures and pains of a rainy Saturday.

Genres: Poetry

47 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1980

About the author

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 Salamanca in 1997 and both now work together in writing poems and stories for children and adults alike.

Reviews

[Allison · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jack Prelutsky is awesome and this book has timeless poems in it that would appeal to all ages. It is unfortunate that it's so difficult to find a copy. For such a well-known author, it's always sad to find certain titles are out of print.

[Dolly · Rating 3 out of 5]

I've always been a fan of Mr. Prelutsky's poems. I think they are fun to read aloud and they capture the essence of being a child. He hasn't surpassed Shel Silverstein in our girls' esteem, but he always has a way of making us chuckle when we read his poems.

This book features poems that center on the indoor activities that occur on a rainy, rainy Saturday. The poems don't all focus on rain, but the book begins and ends with ones that do.

This book is a bit older and has some dated illustrations (like the two friends chatting on corded phones) and the outfits are certainly reminiscent of the late-70s/early 80s. But overall, the poems have a timeless quality that is relevant still today.

[Eden Silverfox · Rating 3 out of 5]

These are poems about things to do on a rainy day. The poems are pretty fun.

[Kristen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book of poetry for littles! I read this book when I was a little kid and fell in love with it. Now I read it to my kids!

[Rebecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

Old School Poems from the 80's.