Do any of our blog readers recognize this man? (No, it’s not Chad Beckerman.)
Run, do not walk, to wherever it is you get your music and buy Natalie Merchant’s gorgeous Leave Your Sleep, featuring “Bleezer’s Ice Cream”—lyrics by Jack Prelutsky, music composed by Natalie Merchant, with a kick-ass arrangement by Wynton Marsalis.
Archive of posts tagged Jack Prelutsky
While we were still licking Cheerios off the floor . . .
When Poetry Is Irresistible
“The Detested Radishark”
By Jack Prelutsky
Performed by a young fan
Hooray for Beneath a Blue Umbrella, celebrating twenty years in print! “The Detested Radishark” appears in Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant, by Jack Prelutsky, illustrated by Carin Berger. Happy Poetry Month!
From the Writer’s Desk
THE NEW POET ON THE BLOCK: PART TWO, BY JACK PRELUTSKY
Now I’d like to tell you about three of the poems in The New Kid on the Block, and how I came to write them.
When I was a kid, I lived in an apartment house, upstairs from a very mean girl. She was unfriendly, never [...]
From the Writer’s Desk
THE NEW POET ON THE BLOCK, BY JACK PRELUTSKY
If I were a frog
On a bump on a log,
I doubt that I’d ever
Try writing a blog.
But I am a guy,
Which is probably why
I’d much rather blog
Than try catching a fly.
A long time ago, I wrote a book of poems in the voice of a very famous [...]
A 20th Anniversary? That’s Something Big!
THE 20th ANNIVERSARY OF SOMETHING BIG HAS BEEN HERE, BY JACK PRELUTSKY
It’s 2010, the thirty-fifth anniversary of Greenwillow Books, the wonderful children’s publisher started by Susan Hirschman. Happy anniversary! It’s also the twentieth anniversary of Something Big Has Been Here, my second “big” book of poems for Greenwillow. The first big book, The New Kid [...]
