J. Patrick Lewis

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. J. Patrick Lewis (born May 5, 1942) is an American poet and prose writer noted for his children's poems and other light verse. He worked as professor of economics before devoting himself full-time to writing in 1998. He is the author of more than 65 children's books including A Hippopotamusn't (1990), BoshBlobberBosh (1998), Please Bury Me in the Library (2004), First Dog (2009), Spot the Plot (2009), and The House (2009). His books have been published by Creative Editions, Knopf, Atheneum, Dial, Harcourt, Little, Brown, National Geographic, Chronicle Books, Scholastic, Candlewick, Holiday House, Sleeping Bear Press, Dawn Publications, and others. Gulls Hold Up the Sky, his first book of adult poems, is forthcoming from Laughing Fire Press.