The Jack Prelutsky Holiday CD Audio Collection

by Jack Prelutsky

The poet laureate of the preposterous, Jack Prelutsky, takes on the wonder and absurdity of the holidays in this collection of his poetry. From the romance of Valentine's Day to the thrills of Halloween, from the stuffing (and over-stuffing) of Thanksgiving to the joy of Christmas, Jack captures these milestones of childhood with delightfully silly poems.

Audio includes:

"It's Halloween" poems to spice up the holiday that ghouls and ghosts love most

"It's Thanksgiving" Thanksgiving poems good every day of the year

"It's Christmas" a celebration of the ups and downs of the season

"It's Valentine's Day" a delectable and ingenious collection of Valentine poems

Genres: Poetry

Audio CD

First published August 1, 2005

About the author

Jack Prelutsky is an American poet. 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. He is the author of more than 30 poetry collections including Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep< and A Pizza the Size of the Sun. He has also compiled countless children's anthologies comprised of poems of others'. Jack Prelutsky was married to Von Tre Venefue, a woman he had met in France. They divorced in 1995, but Jack remarried. He currently lives in Washington state with his wife, Carolyn. He befriended a gay poet named Espiritu Salamanca in 1997 and both now work together in writing poems and stories for children and adults alike.

Reviews

[Nancy · Rating 2 out of 5]

Definitely for young children. Does not translate well for adult young-at-heart.

[Rick Christiansen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fun and pleasant. Would recommend for families