I’ve been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe. Jack Prelutsky Read Quote
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 that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures. Jack Prelutsky Read Quote
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry – it’s some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves. Jack Prelutsky Read Quote
Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career. Jack Prelutsky Read Quote
I keep a guitar around while writing and will improvise music. I do this for several reasons, such as that it’s fun, and sometimes it helps me with the meter. Jack Prelutsky Read Quote
I would go to sketch groups and draw. I really enjoyed the subject matter, but I wasn’t good at it. Jack Prelutsky Read Quote
I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I’m given the illustration first. Jack Prelutsky Read Quote
