His latest books are : I've Lost My Hippopotamus The Carnival of the Animals My Dog May Be a Genius Pizza, Pigs Poetry: How to Write a Po (Jack's first book of prose) and Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face and Other Po s. In 2006, the Poetry Foundation designated Jack as the nation's first Children's Poet Laureate.
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 encourag ent, his first book, A Gopher in the Garden, was published in 1967. By chance he took his first po s, descriptions of fanciful creatures, to Susan Hirschman, editor at Macmillan. While he 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, he is more likely to appear on a concert stage than in a library or bookstore. Although Jack Prelutsky is best known for his humorous and imaginative verse, his readers are now discovering how deeply music is entwined with his poetry.
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