![]() ![]() It’s refreshing to see an approach that centers on engineering and puzzle-solving techniques (advice includes turning an idea around, making lists, or asking a reporter’s questions about a notion to get more subject matter, and thesauruses and rhyming dictionaries are recommended) rather than inner feelings or aesthetic impulses kids will particularly appreciate his repeated reminders that truth is utterly unnecessary in the process (and if they’re wise, they’ll remember that as they read his stories, too). More importantly, he’s impressively specific in giving advice about that most difficult of processes, finding ideas, and proffering helpful and clear ways to develop those ideas into poems. ![]() His easygoing, chatty writing is perfectly pitched for stories of sibling mayhem, parental frustration, and kid encounters. “In this book,” Prelutsky explains in his introduction, “I’m letting you peek into my mind and see how I use my imagination to turn ideas into poems.” And that’s exactly what he does here, alternating highly readable anecdotes about his childhood, his life, and his writing with poems that relate to-or came out of-the storied events. ![]()
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