When poetry editor Lou Peacock compiled A Whale of a Time: Funny Poems for Each Day of the Year, she chose Rita Dove’s “The First Book” to be the entry for January 1. The poem describes what it’s like ...

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 ...

Elizabeth was first inspired to write poetry about nature by teacher Mr Wood at St Mary and St John’s RC Primary School in ...

Springfield school librarian Angela Knight's weekly poem readings inspired a new book. The book, "40 Poems for 40 Weeks," features a poem for each week of the school year. David Harrison, the school's ...

SUSAN COOPER: (Reading) So the shortest day came, and the year died. And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world came people singing, dancing to drive the dark away. COOPER: (Reading) ...

If you've found yourself reading the same picture book over and over (and over and over) to a small but determined audience we see you and salute you! Perhaps you'd like to add a few new titles to the ...

When actor Bob Odenkirk's daughter Erin and son Nate were little, he created a unique bedtime ritual. Rather than read a story, Bob, 60, would write poems with his kids. "I really wanted them to be a ...

For NPR's series "Picture This," illustrator Carson Ellis talks about working with author Susan Cooper to make Cooper's poem "Shortest Day" into a children's book. (This story first aired on Weekend ...