Last night throughout the entire English-speaking world millions and millions of parents, grandparents, elder siblings, aunts and uncles, and family friends read one and the same poem to the little ...

Poet and educator Kwame Alexander stops by to chat about poetry with NPR's Rachel Martin. He shares some ideas for poems to read with kids and tips for getting kids to write some of their own. Oh, the ...

Who says poetry has to rhyme? Chris Harris — a writer and executive producer for How I Met Your Mother — had never written a poetry book or a children's book before, but he wanted to write something ...

April is National Poetry Month. Though it’s unclear who designates these things, any chance to celebrate words with the offspring is worthwhile. “Even if kids don’t entirely understand a poem like ...

To be or not to be? Young poets might know the question from William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” from movies or television, but not from reading the Bard himself. And it might not matter. Kids are creating ...

Recently I spent 10 weeks as a classroom teacher again, after a long hiatus. One night, I stayed late at school to prepare the shelves for our cross-genre reading unit. My six-year-olds were going to ...

This lushly illustrated addition to the Poetry for Kids series highlights Robert Frost, beginning with a thoughtful introduction to his life and work. The 35 poems include “The Road Not Taken,” ...

Children’s verse is no minor subject to Chicago’s Poetry Foundation, which is creating a $25,000 prize and laureateship in the field. The foundation said it plans to announce the winner Sept. 27, when ...

AMHERST –Author Susan Snively, a volunteer at the Emily Dickinson Museum here, guided a young person recently who said that once she began to read Dickinson's work, she knew she would never stop.

“I have a dream.” You have heard the line. But what you may not know is that the poetry of Langston Hughes influenced Martin Luther King Jr.’s best-known speech, which he delivered during the 1963 ...

Lemony Snicket’s novels offer a healthy dose of the macabre for curious young readers, but with a bevy of literary allusions and a sharp streak of black comedy, the “Series of Unfortunate Events” ...