He has also compiled numerous childrens anthologies comprising poems of others. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission. Prelutsky has written more than 50 poetry collections, including Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep (1976), Its Halloween (1977), The Mean Old Mean Hyena (1978), and Something BIG Has Been Here (1990). Elsewhere, in rolling, rumbling, moaning verse and wicked black-and-white pictures, a mummy walks (''and it permeates the desert/ with its stench of foul decay'') a phosphorescent specter haunts the moor (''It swirls about the vapors/ of the luminescent mist'') a zombie approaches (''Closer, closer to your bed,/closer comes this thing undead'') a sorceress ''stirs her vat/ of filth and fat'' (''and Hades' hole/ takes one more soul/ as demons there rejoice'') and a full dozen terrifying creatures establish their clammy hold on your attention. Jack Prelutsky For 30 years, Jack Prelutsky’s inventive poems have inspired legions of children to fall in love with poetry. Lobel shows the horseman first in dramatic, emblamatic profile, then in an unsettling close-up, and finally riding off as a cock crows in the foreground. Recurring Nightmares, but even more riveting-sometimes delightfully shivery, sometimes as compelling as the ''stark and starless skies'' through which ''The Headless Horseman'' races upon his ''fearful trip.'' ''He is evil's foul embodiment,/ with laughter on his breath.'' The three-page ''Headless Horseman'' makes a fine finale, as it leaves behind waves of spooky menace that need time to settle, undisturbed by the prospect of another nightmare. Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep:. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. These were followed by Frog and Toad All Year and Days with Frog and Toad.Reviews provided by Syndetics Kirkus Book Review First edition, 3rd printing in the reinforced hardcover binding and original jacket (jacket price-clipped with some tears and nicks to edges). Buy Nightmares: Poems to Trouble Your Sleep Illustrated by Prelutsky, Jack, Lobel, Arnold (ISBN: 9780688840532) from Amazon's Book Store.

The books have garnered much acclaim, including a Caldecott Honor for Frog and Toad Are Friends and a Newbery Honor for Frog and Toad Together.

Jack Prelutsky lives in Washington State.Īrnold Lobel (1933–1987) illustrated many wonderful children’s books but is most beloved for his Frog and Toad stories, including the first one, Frog and Toad Are Friends, published in 1970. Jack Prelutsky is the best-selling author of more than fifty books of poetry, including The New Kid on the Block, illustrated by James Stevenson, and Stardines Swim High Across the Sky, illustrated by Carin Berger.

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