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Jack Prelutsky
Jack Prelutsky
Jack Prelutsky was born in Brooklyn, in 1940, and attended Hunter College in New York City. Although he claims to have hated poetry through most of his childhood, he rediscovered poetry later...
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Dora Diller  
by Jack Prelutsky

"My stomach's full of butterflies!"

lamented Dora Diller.
Her mother sighed. "That's no surprise,
you ate a caterpillar!"



From The New Kid on the Block, published by Greenwillow, 1984. Used with permission.
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