While growing up in the Bronx, little Jack Prelutsky was known as an imaginative kid, but for some reason he didn't like poetry. Then, when he was in junior high school, he wrote a poem about a werewolf. When it was published, Jack took the first steps on a career path that has kept him busy and kept readers delighted for decades. The man named as the first U.S. children's poet laureate has written scores of books, but he has never before composed one on a subject quite so vast as Swamps of Sleethe; in this book of "poems from beyond the solar system," Prelutsky ventures where no poet has gone before. A thoroughly entertaining read.