These lovely short poems for kids will get the little ones excited to read stanza after stanza Short poems for kids that ...

Michael Rosen, former Children’s Laureate, has written more than 200 books, some of the most memorable of which have been the most personal. In his Sad Book (2004), he chronicled his grief ...

Put 100 or more poems together, add illustrations, and you’ve got a too-big book, by most kids’ standards. Yet it’s precisely the smallness and portability of a poem that appeals to a child.

Poetry can be fun. "When you write poems with kids, you see how immediately they get this," Matthew Burgess says. "If you read a poem aloud to kids, they start to dance in their seats." ...

Children’s librarian Samantha Merigold’s sons, “junior bunnies” Clark, 10, and Flynn, 7, shared jokes with the crowd to go accompany a reading of Forbes' poem "Funny Bunny." ...

Neruda's Book of Questions is well known in Latin American literature. A new bilingual, illustrated selection of his poems gives English-speaking children an opportunity to interrogate the world.