![]() ![]() He graduated in 1958, and went on to Hunter College for two years. ![]() While there, he was happy and was able to train his beautiful singing voice and even took part in the musicals. She would pick a boring poem from a boring book and read it in a boring voice, looking bored while she was doing it."Īfter teachers discovered he had musical talents, they suggest he attend The High School of Music & Art. The syllabus told her she had to recite a poem once a week. She was determined to inflict her views on her captives. He stated that "sometime in elementary school I had a teacher who, in retrospect, did not like poetry herself. ![]() Prelutsky claims to have hated poetry when he was younger. ![]() He attended local public schools in the Bronx, hated the experience, and was bored in class. He was poor growing up, and he said he was ".a sensitive kid in a working class neighborhood. While he was still a baby, a fire burned his family's apartment and he was saved by his Uncle Charlie, who was a stand up comic who played the Borscht Belt. Jack Prelutsky was born on Septemin Brooklyn, New York to Charles, an electrician, and Dorothea, a homemaker. He lives in Seattle, Washington with his wife, Carolynn. Jack Prelutsky is an American writer of children's poetry. ![]()
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