This legacy makes her poems a rich resource for teaching kids about Black history. Angelou’s poetry, characterized by its ...

I mean, who else would be oblivious to sunrises, sunsets, rippling streams, dancing leaves, and first love, and decide to write 43 poems about toddlers instead? (Toddler poems, for heaven’s sake!) ...

These poems explore with tenderness and anxiety ... who is 44 and has two teenaged children, a son and daughter, for answers. “I felt blessed to have this chance to cultivate questions about ...

“Our children just walk into a room and give us a poem.” Standing in the living room that morning watching my little boy play at being an artist moved me to write the following poem. Need a brea ...

They now have an illustrated book of poetry called Words with Wings and Magic Things. "One of the ways I describe this book is Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids," says Burgess, who remembers ...

To capture their experiences, Save the Children invited children from countries around the world to write short poems about COVID-19, life under lockdown, and how the pandemic has changed their lives.

Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day," celebrating the winter solstice, is also a children's book illustrated by Carson Ellis. They collaborated by mail. SUSAN COOPER: (Reading) So the shortest ...

By placing children and mothers, in particular, at the center of her poems, Glück explored a world made of equal parts myth and reality, sketched out by her precise, timeless language.

A sports writer wrote a book of poems for kids? A skeptical belly laugh might reasonably follow. After that . . . well, let me explain. It’s not as crazy as it sounds. Really. There actually ...