Awful Ogre Running Wild
2008
First Published
3.68
Average Rating
40
Number of Pages
A picnic with a lovely ogress, followed by bug hunts and crocodile wrestling . . . A visit to Grandma, who serves her famous moldy bread and dried weasel . . . A dip in the neighborhood pool with his precious pet piranha . . . And . . . ogre yoga? Awful Ogre is back, and awfully excited to share his action-packed summer with you ! The mischievous Jack Prelutsky and Paul O. Zelinsky transport readers once again to a world that is irresistibly gross and awesomely awful, starring the endearing, unforgettable Awful Ogre!
Avg Rating
3.68
Number of Ratings
90
5 STARS
18%
4 STARS
46%
3 STARS
26%
2 STARS
9%
1 STARS
2%
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Author
Jack Prelutsky
Author · 62 books
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.
