Jack Prelutsky

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Jack Prelutsky (born September 8, 1940 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American poet noted for his children's poems. He attended New York public schools, and later the High School of Music and Art and Hunter College. Prelutsky, who has also worked as a busboy, furniture mover, folk singer, and cab driver, claims that he hated poetry in grade school because of the way it was taught.

Prelutsky is the author of more than 50 poetry collections including Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep (1976), The Mean Old Mean Hyena (1978), and Something BIG Has Been Here (1990).^[1] He has also compiled numerous children's anthologies comprising poems of others.

In 2006, the Poetry Foundation named Prelutsky the inaugural winner of the Children’s Poet Laureate award. [1].

He currently lives in Mercer Island with his wife, Carolynn. He has also lived in Manhattan, Albuquerque, and Boston. He says that he plans on living in other cities as well.^{[citation needed]}