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.
Books
I'm Glad I'm Me
Poems About You
2006
The Terrible Tiger
1989
The Queen of Eene
1978
My Heart is a Poem
2023
Kermit's garden of verses
1982
Hard-Boiled Bugs for Breakfast
And Other Tasty Poems
2021
Imagine That! Poems of Never-Was
1998
The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight
More Poems to Trouble Your Sleep
1980
The Swamps of Sleethe
Poems From Beyond the Solar System
2009
Halloween Countdown
2002
The Silver Moon
Lullabies and Cradle Songs
2013
Dog Days
Rhymes Around the Year
1999
If Not for the Cat
2004
My Parents Think I'm Sleeping
1985
I Like it Here at School
2003
What a Day It Was at School!
2006
Zoo Doings
1983
For Laughing Out Louder
More Poems to Tickle Your Funnybone
1995
The Sheriff of Rottenshot
1982
Monday's Troll
1996
The Jack Prelutsky Holiday CD Audio Collection
2005
My Dog May Be a Genius
2008
Read a Rhyme, Write a Rhyme
2005
Scranimals
2002
It's Valentine's Day
1983
Be Glad Your Nose Is on Your Face
And Other Poems: Some of the Best of Jack Prelutsky
2008
It's Halloween
1977
It's Raining Pigs and Noodles
2000
The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders
2002
The 20th Century Children's Poetry Treasury
1999
Wild Witches' Ball
2004
Awful Ogre's Awful Day
2001
Pizza, Pigs, and Poetry
How to Write a Poem
2008
Carnival of the Animals
2010
Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant
And Other Poems
2006
Ride a Purple Pelican
1986
Awful Ogre Running Wild
2008
Stardines Swim High Across the Sky
and Other Poems
2013
The New Kid on the Block
1984
It's Snowing! It's Snowing!
Winter Poems
1984
Good Sports
Rhymes about Running, Jumping, Throwing, and More
2006
For Laughing Out Loud
Poems to Tickle Your Funnybone
1991
It's Thanksgiving
1982
A Pizza the Size of the Sun
1996
The Dragons are Singing Tonight
1993
I've Lost My Hippopotamus
2012
Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast
1988
Me I Am!
2007
Nightmares
Poems to Trouble Your Sleep
1976
Beneath a Blue Umbrella
1990
In Aunt Giraffe's Green Garden
2007
What I Did Last Summer
1984
Rolling Harvey Down the Hill
1980
The Random House Book of Poetry for Children
1983
The Wizard
2007
There's No Place Like School
Classroom Poems
2010
The Snopp on the Sidewalk
1977
Rainy Rainy Saturday
1980
The Gargoyle on the Roof
1999
A. Nonny Mouse Writes Again!
1993
Poems of A. Nonny Mouse
1989
It's Christmas!
1981
