![]() Since then he has published over seventy books of poetry, including The New Kid on the Block Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! The Dragons are Singing Tonight Awful Ogre’s Awful Day Scranimals The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders If Not for the Cat What a Day it Was at School! and Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant. Susan suggested that he write about real animals and with her encouragement, Jack’s first book, A Gopher in the Garden, was published in 1967. By chance he took his first poems, descriptions of fanciful creatures, to Susan Hirschman, editor at Macmillan. While Jack has been making words rhyme for over forty-five years, his career began as a folk singer in coffeehouses and with uncertain aspirations of becoming an operatic tenor. Currently, Jack is more likely to appear on a concert stage than in a library or bookstore. About The AuthorĪlthough Jack Prelutsky is best known for his humorous and imaginative verse, his readers are now discovering how deeply music is entwined with his poetry. ![]() ![]() Greenwillow Books. Reprinted by permission of the author. From the book A Pizza the Size of the Sun. ![]()
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