I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning. - Jack Prelutsky
The sound of a word is at least as important as the meaning.
- Jack Prelutsky
It's Halloween! It's Halloween! The moon is full and bright And we shall see what can't be seen On any other night. Skeletons and ghosts and g… - Jack Prelutsky
It's Halloween! It's Halloween! The moon is full and bright And we shall see what can't be seen On any other night. Skeletons and ghosts and g…
After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where t… - Jack Prelutsky
After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where t…
We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine. - Jack Prelutsky
We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood. - Jack Prelutsky
I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career. - Jack Prelutsky
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.
If you don't believe in dragons, It is curiously true That the dragons you disparage Choose to not believe in you. - Jack Prelutsky
If you don't believe in dragons, It is curiously true That the dragons you disparage Choose to not believe in you.
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood. - Jack Prelutsky
Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what. - Jack Prelutsky
I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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