Jack Prelutsky
Jack Prelutsky was born in Brooklyn, New York. He began writing and illustrating poems in his early twenties and continues to write children's poetry today. He lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife.
Works (50)

The New Kid on the Block

It's Halloween

Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!
1998

The Random House book of poetry for children

Prentice Hall Literature--Copper

It's Thanksgiving

Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Copper Level

Imagine That! Poems of Never-Was

The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight

My parents think I'm sleeping

Imagine

It's raining pigs & noodles

Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young

A pizza the size of the sun

Ride a Purple Pelican

It's snowing! it's snowing!

The Worlds of Childhood (The Writer's Craft)

The Dragons Are Singing Tonight

If not for the cat

The 20th century children's poetry treasury

Kermit's Garden of Verses

Mamman och den vilda Bebin

Pizza, pigs, and poetry

Something big has been here

Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast

The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders

It's Valentine's Day

Me I am!

Nightmares

The Wizard

Circus

It's Christmas

Be glad your nose is on your face and other poems

Zoo doings

Monday's troll

Scranimals

My Dog May Be a Genius

I've Lost my Hippopotamus

For Laughing Out Loud

The terrible tiger

Good Sports

The Baby Uggs Are Hatching

Wild Witches' Ball

Sweet & silly Muppet poems

The gargoyle on the roof

My dog does my homework!

The swamps of Sleethe

My Creature

The carnival of the animals by Camille Saint-Saëns

Behold the bold umbrellaphant