The audience for 91-year-old Agnes Andreasen’s poetry just keeps growing. At first, her audience was limited to family members, starting with siblings and then growing to include her husband, Bernard; ...

Kenn Nesbitt has been named the new Children’s Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation, for a two-year tenure. Nesbitt, who lives with his family in Spokane, Wash. – will serve as an advisor on ...

Shel Silverstein made it easy for kids to love poetry. Author of “Where the Sidewalk Ends” and “A Light in the Attic” among other works, Silverstein made poetry accessible, relatable and fun. These ...

Shel Silverstein was one of the most talented poets of the last century. If you were a kid who grew up in America, you grew up with his songs, poems, and maybe one or two cartoons that he made, too.

There's no such thing as being too young to appreciate poetry! In fact, you'd be surprised by how much kids can get on board with the rhyming and humor in easy, fun children's poems. They're short, ...

LOS ANGELES — Bob Odenkirk has known he wanted to immortalize the playful poems he created with his kids since they were first scribbled down years ago. The Emmy-nominated actor always assumed “Zilot ...

When teaching children to read, it’s good to find ways to make reading as enjoyable as possible, that’s why we created a list of 10 short inspirational poems for children. Just like every painting in ...

Finally, there are signs of spring. So we’re beginning this roundup of children’s picture books with two by St. Paulite Sarah Nelson that celebrate parks and frogs. What better topics to remind us of ...

From 1941 to 1945, 15,000 children were imprisoned in the Terezin concentration camp in what is now the Czech Republic. Fewer than 150 survived. But a rescued cache of poems and drawings, discovered ...

'I chose this amusing poem because it just sums up that when things go wrong, they can go wrong in a big way and we all have days like these, but hopefully we can smile afterwards about the silly ...

Since 2012, England has taken an increasingly narrow approach to how primary school teachers should teach reading. The ...