My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.
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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
I invented animals and birds - I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
Jack Prelutsky
I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe.
Jack Prelutsky
I'm mostly influenced by life, what's around me, and my own childhood.
Jack Prelutsky
My reading is extremely eclectic. Lately I've been teaching myself computer graphics, so I'm reading a lot about that. I read books of trivia, of facts.
Jack Prelutsky
Children seem naturally drawn to poetry - it's some combination of the rhyme, rhythm, and the words themselves.
Jack Prelutsky
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