A Child's Bookshelf: Inside Children's Literature is a series on children's literature hosted by Ann Curry, from the Today Show. It will air on PBS stations in summer and fall 2004. It features interviews with some of the country's best know children's book authors and illustrators including poet, Jack Prelutsky and actor John Lithgow. It was funded by the U.S. Department of Education and produced by Reading is Fundamental, the country's largest non-profit literacy organization.


Poet Jack Prelutsky, (featured in the "A Child's Bookshelf")
and Maura Daly Phinney.

Recent News About Mr. Pretlutsky: September 28, 2006

Children Get a Poet Laureate: By JULIE BOSMAN

The Poetry Foundation has named Jack Prelutsky its first children's poet laureate, in the hopes that the appointment will raise awareness of the genre and encourage more poets to write for children. Mr. Prelutsky, 66, is the author of more than 35 books, including "Behold the Bold Umbrellaphant, and Other Poems" (Greenwillow). Collectively his books and anthologies have sold more than a million copies. A Brooklyn native, Mr. Prelutsky has not always had a glowing opinion of poetry, which he began writing at 24. "For the longest time, I thought of poetry as the literary equivalent of liver," he said in a telephone interview. "It took me a long time to recover from that." He will receive $25,000 and the Children's Poet Laureate Medallion. "I'm honored and baffled by this whole thing," he said. "And tickled."

"Great Parents, Great Kids with Dr. Dana Chidekel" is the first Blue Vista Productions program to be distributed. It is currently airing on PBS stations around the country.

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