(Soundbite of music) MONTAGNE: Karen Jo Shapiro has written two books of poetry for kids set to the rhythm of the world's most popular poems: "Because I Could Not Stop My Bike" and "I Must Go Down ...

There are many reasons why poems serve as good reading material for children, which is why we created a list of funny poems for children. Those reasons include the fact that poetry helps develop a ...

This poem can be a resource for teaching children about the role women played in Black history. By exploring Maya Angelou’s ...

What do you get if you add poems that are "Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids" with pictures of yetis and primordial slime?

Buttercup The poet delights in the rhythm of the word 'buttercup ... John Agard introduces and reads some of his best-known poems for children, including 'A date with spring' and 'Hopaloo ...

F or Jeremy Bentham, a philosopher, poetry was simply writing that “fails” to reach the end of the line. For W.H. Auden, a ...

It’s joyful, fun and, hand in hand with rhythm it sits with our ... a particular phase they go through, and children are pretty quick to sense that poetry like this can be trying too hard ...

poetry and song are the same word. Edward Hirsch, author of A Poet's Glossary,... How Rhythm Carries A Poem, From Head To Heart Poetry, perhaps more than any other form of writing, delves deep ...

Harrison, who has written dozens of books, contributed one poem and reached out to other poets to select or write one for children. "I started contacting poets. It didn't take long," Harrison said.