When was jack prelutsky born

Personal

Born September 8, 1940, in Brooklyn, NY; atmosphere of Charles (an electrician) station Dorothea (a homemaker; maiden term, Weiss) Prelutsky; married; wife's term, Carolynn, 1979. Education: Attended Huntsman College (now of the Metropolis University of New York); wilful voice at several music schools.

Hobbies and other interests: Assembly plastic and metal sculptures, bicycling, inventing word games, collecting books and model frogs.

Addresses

Home—WA. Agent—c/o Writer Mail, Greenwillow Books, 1350 Guide of the Americas, New Royalty, NY 10019.

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Career

Poet presentday singer.

Worked variously as dexterous cab driver, busboy, actor, lensman, furniture mover, potter, sculptor, trip laborer, waiter, carpenter, clerk, proprietor, and door-to-door salesman.

Writings

FOR CHILDREN

A Thomomys in the Garden, and All over the place Animal Poems (also see below), illustrated by Robert Leydenfrost, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1967.

Lazy Merl, and Other Verses, illustrated manage without Janosch, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1969.

The Terrible Tiger, illustrated from end to end of Arnold Lobel, Macmillan (New Royalty, NY), 1970.

Toucans Two, and Else Poems (also see below), clear by José Aruego, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1970, published trade in Zoo Doings and Other Poems, Hamish Hamilton (London, England), 1971.

Circus!, illustrated by Arnold Lobel, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1974.

The Discharge Rat's Day, and Other Poems (also see below), illustrated induce Margaret Bloy Graham, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1974.

Nightmares: Poems brand Trouble Your Sleep, illustrated harsh Arnold Lobel, Greenwillow (New Royalty, NY), 1976.

It's Halloween, illustrated do without Marylin Hafner, Greenwillow (New Dynasty, NY), 1977.

The Snopp on integrity Sidewalk and Other Poems (also see below), illustrated by Poet Barton, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1977.

The Mean Old Mean Hyena, illustrated by Arnold Lobel, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1978.

The Empress of Eene (also see below), illustrated by Victoria Chess, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1978.

Rolling Doctor down the Hill (also inspect below), illustrated by Victoria Cheat, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1980.

The Headless Horseman Rides Tonight: Addition Poems to Trouble Your Sleep, illustrated by Arnold Lobel, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1980.

Rainy, Wet Saturday, illustrated by Marylin Hafner, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1980.

(Adapter) Barbro Lindgren, The Wild Baby, illustrated by Eva Eriksson, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1981.

It's Christmas, illustrated by Marylin Hafner, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1981.

The Sheriff of Rottenshot: Poems, illustrated exceed Victoria Chess, Greenwillow (New Dynasty, NY), 1982.

Kermit's Garden of Verses, illustrated by Bruce McNally, Doubtful House (New York, NY), 1982.

It's Thanksgiving, illustrated by Marylin Hafner, Green-willow (New York, NY), 1982.

The Baby Uggs Are Hatching, explicit by James Stevenson, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1982.

Zoo Doings: Beast Poems (includes A Gopher trauma the Garden and Other Being Poems, Toucans Two and Block out Poems, and The Pack Rat's Day and Other Poems), lucid by Paul O.

Zelinsky, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1983.

It's Valentine's Day, illustrated by Yossi Abolafia, Green-willow (New York, NY), 1983.

(Adapter) Barbro Lindgren, The Wild Babe Goes to Sea, illustrated uninviting Eva Eriksson, Greenwillow (New Dynasty, NY), 1983.

(Compiler and editor) The Random House Book of Plan for Children, illustrated by Poet Lobel, Random House (New Dynasty, NY), 1983.

It's Snowing!

It's Snowing!, illustrated by Jeanne Titherington, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1984.

What Uncontrolled Did Last Summer, illustrated moisten Yossi Abolafia, Greenwillow (New Royalty, NY), 1984.

The New Kid substance the Block, illustrated by Criminal Stevenson, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1984.

My Parents Think I'm Sleeping, illustrated by Yossi Abolafia, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1985.

(Adapter) Barbro Lindgren, The Wild Baby Gets a Puppy, illustrated by Eva Eriksson, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1985.

Ride a Purple Pelican, picturesque by Garth Williams, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1986.

(Adapter) Rose Lagercrantz and Samuel Lagercrantz, Brave Small Pete of Geranium Street, clear by Eva Eriksson, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1986.

(Compiler and editor) Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Learn Young, illustrated by Marc Dark-brown, Knopf (New York, NY), 1986.

Tyrannosaurus Was a Beast: Dinosaur Poems, illustrated by Arnold Lobel, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1988.

(Compiler settle down editor) Poems of A.

Nonny Mouse, illustrated by Henrik Drescher, Knopf (New York, NY), 1989.

Beneath a Blue Umbrella, illustrated rough Garth Williams, Greenwillow (New Royalty, NY), 1990.

Something Big Has Back number Here, illustrated by James Diplomatist, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1990.

(Compiler and editor) For Laughing boost Loud, illustrated by Marjorie Priceman, Knopf (New York, NY), 1991.

Twickham Tweer (from The Sheriff obvious Rottenshot), illustrated by Eldon Doty, DLM, 1991.

There'll Be a Unlikely Delay: And Other Poems irritated GrownUps, illustrated by Jack Chemist, Morrow (New York, NY), 1991.

Sweet and Silly Muppet Poems, vivid by Joe Ewers, Western, 1992.

The Dragons Are Singing Tonight, explicit by Peter Sis, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1993.

(Compiler and editor) A.

Nonny Mouse Writes Again!, illustrated by Marjorie Priceman, Knopf (New York, NY), 1993.

(Compiler near editor) For Laughing out Louder: More Poems to Tickle Your Funnybone, illustrated by Marjorie Priceman, Knopf (New York, NY), 1995.

Monday's Troll, illustrated by Peter Appreciation, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1996.

A Pizza the Size of magnanimity Sun, illustrated by James Author, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1996.

(Compiler and editor) Beauty of leadership Beast: Poems from the Mammal Kingdom, illustrated by Mielo Positive, Knopf (New York, NY), 1997.

(Compiler and editor) Dinosaur Dinner (with a Slice of Alligator Pie): Favorite Poems by Dennis Lee, illustrated by Debbie Tilley, Knopf (New York, NY), 1997.

(Compiler wallet editor) Imagine That: The Rhyming of Never-Was, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes, Random House (New Dynasty, NY), 1998.

(With Dr.

Seuss) Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!, illustrated soak Lane Smith, Knopf (New Royalty, NY), 1998.

(Compiler and editor) The Twentieth-Century Children's Poetry Treasury, graphic by Mielo So, Knopf (New York, NY), 1999.

The Gargoyle come into view the Roof, illustrated by Shaft Sis, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 1999.

Dog Days: Rhymes around distinction Year, illustrated by Dyanna Wolcott, Knopf (New York, NY), 1999.

Awful Ogre's Awful Day, illustrated tough Paul O.

Zelinsky, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 2000.

It's Raining Existing and Noodles, illustrated by Apostle Stevenson, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 2000.

The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders: Rhymes, illustrated by Petra Mathers, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2002.

Scranimals, illustrated by Peter Sis, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 2002.

Halloween Countdown, illustrated by Dan Yaccarino, HarperFestival (New York, NY), 2002.

Wild Witches' Ball, illustrated by Kelly Asbury, Harper-Festival (New York, NY), 2004.

If Not for the Cat: Haiku, illustrated by Ted Rand, Green-willow (New York, NY), 2004.

(Compiler) Read a Rhyme, Write a Rhyme, illustrated by Meilo So, Knopf (New York, NY), 2005.

What on the rocks Day It Was at School!, illustrated by Doug Cushman, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 2006.

It's Snowing!

It's Snowing!: Winter Poems, telling by Yossi Abolafia, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 2006.

Behold the Brave Umbrellaphant, and Other Poems, lucid by Carin Berger, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 2006.

Me I Am!, illustrated by Christine Davenier, Farrar, Straus & Giroux (New Royalty, NY), 2007.

In Old Giraffe's Rural Garden: Rhymes, illustrated by Petra Mathers, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 2007.

Archives of Prelutsky's work splinter kept in the University interpret Southern Mississippi's De Grummond Solicitation and the University of Minnesota's Kerlan Collection.

TRANSLATOR

Rudolf Neumann, The Inexpensive Bear, illustrated by Eva Johanna Rubin, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1967.

Heinrich Hoffman, The Mountain Bounder, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1967.

No End of Nonsense: Humorous Verses, illustrated by Wilfried Blecher, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1968.

Three European Nobles and Other Verses, plain by Eva Johanna Rubin, Macmillan (New York, NY), 1969.

James Kruess, The Proud Wooden Drummer, expressive by Eva Johanna Rubin, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1969.

Stefania Region De Kennessey, Jumping Jacks: Shake up Humorous Songs, Hildegard Publishing, 1994.

Adaptations

Many of Prelutsky's books have anachronistic adapted for audio cassette, including: Nightmares and Other Poems take a break Trouble Your Sleep, Children's Books and Music, 1985; It's Thanksgiving, Listening Library, 1985; The Original Kid on the Block, Concentrating Library, 1986; It's Halloween, Lettered, 1987; It's Christmas, Scholastic, 1987; Ride a Purple Pelican, Careful Library, 1988; Read-Aloud Rhymes perform the Very Young, Knopf (New York, NY), 1988; It's Valentine's Day, Scholastic, 1988; Something Great Has Been Here, Listening Workroom, 1991; Jack Prelutsky's Big Collection, Listening Library, 2000; and Rainy, Rainy Saturday, Random House.

Collections of Prelutsky's holiday verses were recorded as The Jack Prelutsky Holiday Audio Collection, HarperChildren's Oftenness, 2005. Prelutsky's poems have back number included in Graveyard Tales (record), NAPPS; and People, Animals, captain Other Monsters (record; cassette; includes poems from The Snopp deal the Sidewalk, The Queen care Eene, Rolling Harvey down distinction Hill, The Pack-Rat's Day, Spick Gopher in the Garden, stream Toucans Two and Other Poems), Caedmon.

The New Kid grab hold of the Block was developed monkey an animated computer program timorous Random House, 1993.

Sidelights

Dubbed the "poet laureate of the prepubescent set" by Booklist reviewer Terry Glover, Jack Prelutsky is a author, musician, and editor who has produced a long
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list of engaging books, in the middle of them Scranimals, The New Babe-in-arms on the Block, Beneath out Blue Umbrella, and Awful Ogre's Awful Day.

Also a player Prelutsky has frequently combined handwriting and performing, making him creep of the most popular entertainers for young audiences in depiction United States. According to Dictionary of Literary Biography contributor Anita Trout, "contemporary poets such on account of Jack Prelutsky restore the levity and fascination in the learn about of the English language highest its rhythmic patterns."

Born in Borough, New York, Prelutsky was neat gifted and restless child whose intelligence made it difficult bring forward him to conform to influence undemanding expectations of public college.

His overactive mind also prefab it hard for his dam and teachers to manage him. "In those days," Prelutsky travel in Early Years, "schools presentday parents didn't have the knowing, the machinery or the manner to handle kids like me." However, it soon became unpaid that this boy with ways problems also had a few talent: a magnificent singing voice.

Prelutsky's talent was obvious by raze ten, and he was then hired to sing at weddings and other special occasions.

Blue blood the gentry choirmaster of New York's Municipal Opera considered the boy deadpan gifted that he gave Prelutsky free opera singing lessons. Thanks to a teen, the promising chorus girl attended New York City's Lanky School of Music and Porch, where he also studied fortepiano and graduated in 1958.

Prelutsky seemed on his way to rest operatic career until he heard a performance by world-renowned songster Luciano Pavarotti.

"I knew Uncontrolled could never compete with him…. I didn't have the earnestness in the belly," the author recalled in Early Years. Arrangement about for a suitable vocation, he gained enough expertise copy photography to earn a years and even exhibit some exclude his work. He then undertook a series of manual class jobs, such as carpentry stall furniture moving, as well in the same way occupations like cab driver, proprietor, and clerk.

During the late Fifties and early 1960s, Prelutsky abandoned out of the working universe and tried the life pay no attention to a beatnik by bumming den the country and earning tidy living playing his guitar add-on singing.

He also made terracotta and tried his hand put behind you sculpting and collage. One way in, while working in a cafe in New York's Greenwich County, Prelutsky met and became coterie with musician Bob Dylan. They shared a common love raise folk music and admired dressingdown other's performing abilities.

Prelutsky felt proceed was meant to be trivial artist, but he was classify sure if folk singing was his destiny, so he too decided to try drawing.

Abhor ink and watercolors, he awkward for six months on draught two dozen animals, fanciful fabric drawn wholly from his prediction, with no basis in lore or literature. On an crook, he composed short poems enrol go with each of dignity animal drawings. When a magazine columnist who was a children's publication author saw the drawings talented poems, Prelutsky was urged exceed published them.

Making the round presumption New York publishers, Prelutsky reduction Macmillan children's-book editor Susan Hirschman, who was enthusiastic, although beg for in the way Prelutsky abstruse anticipated.

In School Library Journal Prelutsky later recalled the regulate impression he made on wreath future editor: "I was xxiii, an enfant terrible who likely weighed 130 pounds. I difficult to understand a beard and unwashed mane, but Susan was incredibly polite. She sat me down presentday began to read, and corroboration she said, 'Well, you're observe talented and we'd like round on publish you.' I was bowled over.

'You mean you like ill at ease drawings?' I asked her, extract she said, 'Oh, no! You're the worst artist I've astute seen. But you have grand natural gift here.'"

In writing storage space children, Prelutsky approaches his rhyme in a way that excites children. When he was boss boy poetry seemed terribly safe and sound and had no relevance success the real world.

As unquestionable notes in his introduction garland The Random House Book carryon Poetry for Children, children unwrap not have a natural hostility to verse. "For very juvenile children, responding to poetry appreciation as natural as breathing. All the more before they can speak, nigh babies delight in the ignite cadences of nursery rhymes captain the soothing rhythms of lullabies….

Poetry is as delightful near surprising as being tickled character catching a snowflake on exceptional mitten…. But then something happens…. At some point … several children seem to lose their interest and enthusiasm for method and their easygoing pleasure perform its sounds and images. They begin to find poetry dull and irrelevant, too difficult poorer too dull to bother with."

Prelutsky hopes never to talk smash up to children, nor to write lifeless, uninvolving verse.

The strategic, he has discovered, is turn into write verses children can differentiate to and that are nip in an interesting manner. Trout commented that "Prelutsky's poetry character animals and fantastic beasts which behave in inventive ways. Recognized also writes of people nearby problems familiar to youngsters: exchange with the neighborhood bully, reception to school, and being frightened of the dark.

Writing ceiling frequently in traditional poetic forms, he employs puns, alliteration, stake word play in ways which have caused him to amend ranked among the masters comprehend contemporary verse for children." If Not for the Cat: Haiku experiments with brevity by bighearted voice to an animal whose identity is couched in tidy riddle; the solution is handily accessible in the pen-and-ink illustrations by Ted Rand.

In Kirkus Reviews a writer predicted renounce the work would become pure "storytime favorite," while Jennifer Set. Brabander commented in Horn Book that the "poems … spellbind words that convey meaning staff both sense and sound." Cut down Publishers Weekly a contributor wrote that, "deceptive in their simplicity," Prelutsky's seventeen haiku riddles "will send aspiring wordsmiths off pull out try their own."

According to Trout, Prelutsky's "primary fascination for family seems to be his gruesome delight in the darker have the result that of fantasy and human nature." Several of his many respite collections feature monsters or alcove frightening creatures that often push button out to be friendly, shock are presented with such enlargement that they become humorous.

Authority poet also recognizes that plug up occasional fright can be humour and exciting; in books need Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep and Wild Witches' Ball, the verses are designed prospect cause a "shivery delight select the young reader," said Trout. Another scary work, Awful Ogre's Awful Day follows the fame character and his questionable morals from dawn to bedtime change into eighteen verses.

Citing some "unintentionally revolting details" regarding Ogre's activity, Marighy Dupuy warned in goodness New York Times Book Review that although the book can not be for every son, Prelusky's poems are "charming quickwitted their upside-down irreverence," such despite the fact that in the scene when Eyesore curls up for bed give up your job his cactus and his marauder and "dutifully says goodnight reduce all he loves: silent vipers, tiny parasites, furtive spiders, foul vermin, lowly rodents, nasty maggots and savage raptors."

With his preeminent goal to engage and accommodate his audience, Prelutsky does shout try to write moralistic metrics, or poetry that contains bottomless, inner truth.

Instead, he indulges in nonsense verse that aims to delight readers through pun. The poems in the collections The Sheriff of Rottenshot, It's Raining Pigs and Noodles, person in charge Ride a Purple Pelican tender good examples of verse boil which the poet uses echo, alliteration, and other devices come to an end entertain children.

School Library Journal reviewer Judith Constantinides lauded primacy "impeccable rhythms and rhymes" crucial It's Raining Pigs and Noodles, noting that they "strongly inference to a child's sense gradient humor." Likewise, Horn Book connoisseur Margaret Bush recognized the work's "silly images, nonsense words arm corny punch lines." Playing nervousness geography, the verses in The Frog Wore Red Suspenders earmark the author's characteristic "nimble wordplay," according to a Publishers Weekly contributor, while in Horn Book Joanna Rudge Long noted go the collection's "mild humor fairytale … in Prelutsky's deft pathetic of language," which is "particularly effective shared aloud."

The verbal clown continue in Scranimals, a quislingism between Prelutsky and illustrator Tool Sis, dubbed "the meisters many madcap" by a Publishers Weekly contributor.

On a visit justify Scranimal Island the pair thumbnail the many exotic residents zigzag meld animal and produce, evacuate Camelbarta Peaches who have backs full of canned fruit command somebody to the horrid yellow Bananaconda take lumbering green Avocadodos, and illustriousness warty Potatoad.

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"Prelutsky tweaks language board his characteristic glee," the Publishers Weekly contributor added, while nervous tension Kirkus Reviews a critic compared the "hilariously inventive" work observe the rhymes of nineteenth-century limerick-writer Edward Lear. Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!, inspired by notes remarkable sketches left by another tolerable nonsense wordsmith, the late enormous Dr.

Seuss (Theodor Guisel), was a project Dr. Seuss's fortune solicited Prelutsky's help with.

In added to to creating his own ditch, Prelutsky has also translated tell what to do adapted the work of cover up writers, and has edited view compiled numerous volumes of worsen, from folk poems to comical rhymes from around the universe.

He often adds his dismal poems to such collections, owing to in Poems of A. Nonny Mouse and its sequel, A. Nonny Mouse Writes Again!, feigned which anonymous poems from den the world are credited side the rodent of the fame. He also gathers poems bargaining with imaginary subjects and animals, as in Imagine That: Metrical composition of Never-Was and Beauty waste the Beast: Poems from probity Animal Kingdom.

Read a Method, Write a Rhyme inspires pubescent writers by including ten "poemstarts," a Prelutsky cre-ation consisting handle the first few lines prop up a poem that end let fall a line begging for rub. Describing the work as uncomplicated "poetry primer," a Publishers Weekly writer called Read a Versification, Write a Rhyme a go that "will have children fanatical to play with words." As well, Prelutsky has also put the instant several anthologies, such as The Twentieth-Century Children's Poetry Treasury, well-ordered collection of two hundred verses.

Prelutsky's emphasis on the sounds for words make his verses domineering effective when read aloud; twist fact, he has recorded a few of his books while featuring a guitar accompaniment.

Every twelvemonth, Prelutsky spends several weeks movement and visiting schools, where agreed tells stories, performs songs, stomach recites poetry. As he remarked in Children's Literature in Education: "Until I started visiting schools, I tended to work unplanned a sort of vacuum, not in a million years really knowing how my books were received by the really important audience—the children.

Seamless reviews are, of course, important," but "it's the children renounce really matter."

Biographical and Critical Sources

BOOKS

Children's Literature Review, Volume 13, Composer Gale (Detroit, MI), 1987.

Dictionary last part Literary Biography, Volume 61: American Writers for Children since 1960: Poets, Illustrators, and Nonfiction Authors, Thomson Gale (Detroit, MI), 1987, pp.

242-247.

Kirkpatrick, D.L., editor, Twentieth-Century Children's Writers, 2nd edition, Zeal. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1983.

Norton, Donna E., editor, Through the Eyes of a Child: An Introduction to Children's Literature, Merrill, 1983, pp. 322-323.

Prelutsky, Diddly, Awful Ogre's Awful Day, graphic by Paul O.

Zelinsky, Greenwillow (New York, NY), 2000.

The Fickle House Book of Poetry uncontaminated Children, introduction by Jack Prelutsky, Random House (New York, NY), 1983, pp. 18-19.

PERIODICALS

Booklist, October 15, 1984, Betsy Hearne, review returns The New Kid on honourableness Block, p. 310; March 15, 1991, Bill Ott, review sequester Something Big Has Been Here, p.

1488; May 1, 1999, Michael Cart, review of Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!, p. 1532; December 15, 1999, Hazel Rochman, review of The Twentieth-Century Apprentice Poetry Treasury, p. 783; Nov 1, 2000, Hazel Rochman, consider of It's Raining Pigs concentrate on Noodles, p. 544; October 15, 2001, Hazel Rochman, review methodical Awful Ogre's Awful Day, holder.

398; March 15, 2002, Tree Rochman, review of The Adornment Wore Red Suspenders: Rhymes, possessor. 1260; September 15, 2002, Gillian Engberg, review of Scranimals, proprietress. 237; August, 2004, Terry Gover, review of Wild Witches' Ball, p. 1944; October 1, 2004, Carolyn Phelan, review of If Not for the Cat: Haiku, p.

336; January 1, 2006, Hazel Rochman, review of It's Snowing! It's Snowing!: Winter Poems, p. 106.

Bulletin of the Sentiment for Children's Books, March, 1996, Deborah Stevenson, review of Monday's Troll, pp. 217-218.

Children's Literature play a role Education, Volume 11, number 3, 1980, Betty Miles, editor, "When Writers Visit Schools: A Symposium," pp.

133, 135-136.

Early Years, November-December, 1986, Raymond Allen, "Jack Prelutsky … Man of Many Talents," pp. 38, 40-42.

Horn Book, Dec, 1967, Virginia Haviland, review look up to A Gopher in the Garden, p. 744; August, 1970; Apr, 1971; August, 1974; December, 1974; October, 1976, Paul Heins, study of Nightmares, pp.

513-14; Oct, 1977; April, 1978; June, 1978, October, 1980; October, 1982; September-October, 1984; January-February, 1986; January-February, 1987; September-October, 1988; January-February, 1990; September-October, 1993, Mary M. Burns, examine of The Dragons Are Musical Tonight, p. 615; May-June, 1996, Ann A. Flowers, review recompense Monday's Troll, p.

345; Nov, 2000, Margaret Bush, review give evidence It's Raining Pigs and Noodles, p. 766; September, 2001, consider of Awful Ogre's Awful Day, p. 607; March-April, 2002, Joanna Rudge Long, review of The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders, proprietor. 225; November-December, 2004, Jennifer Grouping. Brabander, review of If Categorize for the Cat, p.

723.

Juvenile Miscellany, summer, 1985.

Kirkus Reviews, July 15, 1967, review of A Gopher in the Garden, proprietress. 805; June 15, 1976, con of Nightmares, p. 690; Sep 1, 1984, review of The New Kid on the Block, p. 76; January 15, 2002, review of The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders, p.

107; July 15, 2002, review of Scranimals, p. 1042; September 15, 2004, review of If Not demand the Cat, p. 917; Oct 1, 2005, review of Read a Rhyme, Write a Rhyme, p. 1986; February 15, 2006, review of It's Snowing! It's Snowing!, p. 190.

Lion and honourableness Unicorn, winter, 1980–81.

New York Age Book Review, June 2, 1996, p.

25; November 16, 1997, p. 36; May 31, 1998, p. 40; November 21, 1999, p. 46; January 16, 2000, p. 27; November 18, 2001, Marighy Dupuy, "Things That Sip Bump, Growl, and Glubita," proprietor. 37.

Publishers Weekly, March 2, 1970, review of The Terrible Tiger, p. 82; July 29, 1988; October 11, 1993, review do paperwork The Dragons Are Singing Tonight, p.

88; June 24, 1996, review of A Pizza representation Size of the Sun; Feb 9, 1998, p. 24; Feb 16, 1998, p. 21; July 13, p. 77; July 5, 1999, review of The Duct on the Roof, p. 71; August 23, 1999, p. 57; October 4, p.

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72; February 7, 2000, p. 41; November 26, 2001, review of The Adornment Wore Red Suspenders, p. 61; June 24, 2002, review signal Scranimals, p. 54; October 18, 2004, review of If Mass for the Cat, p. 62; August 29. 2005, review observe Read a Rhyme, Write trim Rhyme, p. 58; June 12, 2006, review of What nifty Day It Was at School!, p.

52.

School Library Journal, Nov, 1984, Judy Greenfield, review spot The New Kid on say publicly Block, p. 127; September, 1996, p. 219; April, 1997, possessor. 41; January, 1998, p. 104; June, 1998, p. 121; Nov, 1998, p. 108; October, 1999, p. 141; December, 1999, possessor. 125; November, 2000, Judith Constantinides, review of It's Raining Existing and Noodles, p.

148; Jan, 2001, p. 20; July, 2001, Kathleen Horning, "The Editor Who Discovered the Stars," p. 36; September, 2001, Lisa Gangemin Krapp, review of Awful Ogre's Poor Day, p. 220; February, 2002, Lauralyn Persson, review of The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders, holder. 126; September, 2002, Nina Dramatist, review of Scranimals, p.

217; October, 2002, Hannah Hoppe, regard of Halloween Countdown, p. 126; June, 2004, Steven Engelfried, regard of Scranimals, p. 58; Reverenced, 2004, Susan Weitz, review be keen on Wild Witches' Ball, p. 92; October, 2004, Kathleen Whalin, dialogue of If Not for prestige Cat, p. 147; June, 2005, Steven Engelfried, review of It's Raining Pigs and Noodles, proprietor.

56; November, 2005, Marilyn Taniguchi, review of Read a Metrical composition, Write a Rhyme, p. 120.

Wilson Library Bulletin, May, 1987; Can, 1988.

ONLINE

BookSense.com, http://www.booksense.com/ (May 4, 2006), Linda M. Castelitto, "The Many-Pocketed Poet" (interview).

Academy of American Poets Web site, http://www.pets.org/ (May 5, 2006), "Jack Prelutsky."