BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. -- BAINBRIDGE ISLAND, Wash. The birth of the bananaconda was an accident of insomnia, cable television and tropical produce. "Books happen in odd ways," said poet Jack ...
Whether riffing on homework, dragons, pizza or dot-gobbling Flotz, Seattle's Jack Prelutsky is arguably the nation's most popular children's poet. His works, which span nearly 40 years and 35 volumes, ...
Wild Witches' Ball, Jack Prelutsky's refurbished rhyme from Witch Poems (1976), counts down a coven convention with new illustrations by Kelly Asbury. ""Ten tall crones"" precede ""nine queer dears ...
Despite Raschka's (The Hello, Goodbye Window) action-filled illustrations, this collection of sports poems lacks pizzazz. The untitled verses brim with fairly obvious sports commentator clichés. A ...
After 40 years and 35 volumes of children's verse, Seattle's Jack Prelutsky is on a roll. Last fall he was named the nation's first Children's Poet Laureate. Now the Washington Poets Association is ...