Bananaconda inventor is preferred poet of kids

Jack Prelutsky was recently named the first ever “Children’s Poet Laureate,” by the Chicago-based Poetry Foundation. It’s a title, complete with $25,000 cash prize and an inscribed medallion, he will hold for two years, a sort of blessed community service that compels him to give two major public readings and act as adviser, ambassador and pollinator of his art. Read more about Prelutsky in this story from CNN.