JACK PRELUTSKY, long considered the unofficial poet laureate of
elementary school kids, was officially names the nation's first
Children's Poet Laureate in 2006. He has written more than forty
books of verse, ranging from his big collectionsof more than one
hundred verses each-such as The New Kid on the Block and It's
Raining Pigs and Noodles-to his delightful picture book collections
such as- Good Sports- Rhymes About Running, Jumping, Throwing, and
More and Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant, a Lee Bennet Hopkins Honor
Book. In addition to The Random House Books of Poetry for Children,
he has also compiled The 20th- Century Children's Poetry Treasury,
The Beauty of the Beast, Read-Aloud Rhymes for the Very Young, and
eight other award-winning anthologies. He was born in the Bronx,
has traveled to all fifty states to promote poetry, and now lives
in Seattle with his wife, Carolyn.
ARNOLD LOBEL began his career in children's books in 1961 and
illustrated over seventy books, some of which he also wrote. He
received the Caldecott Medal for Fables in 1981 and a Caldecott
Honor in 1971 for Frog and Toad Are Friends. It's sequel, Frog and
Toad Together, was an 1973 Newberry Honor Book. His last major
project before his death in 1987 was The Arnold Lobel Book of
Mother Goose (originally published as The Random House Book of
Mother Goose). He is widely considered one of the greatest
children's book illustrators of the twentieth century.
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