There's not too much difference between writing a picture book and writing a collection of a hundred poems or so, except that the bigger books take a lot longer to do.
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Frankly, writing poetry for children is plain old fun, and I consider myself blessed to have such a delightful career.Jack Prelutsky
When I began writing, I didn't read any other children's poets... I didn't want to be influenced until I'd found my own voice. Now I read them all.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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I write the poems first, with only a few exceptions for odd reasons, where I'm given the illustration first.
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Poetry seems to sink into us the way prose doesn't. I can still quote verses I learned when I was very young, but I have trouble remembering one line of a novel I just finished reading.
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I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
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