These lovely short poems for kids will get the little ones excited to read stanza after stanza Short poems for kids that delight and enrich While poetry might seem like the realm of intellectuals ...

April 12, 2006— -- Poetry was an integral part of the culture of the Kennedy family. Caroline Kennedy remembers that she and her brother John F. Kennedy Jr. would copy classic poems for gifts ...

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 ...

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 ...

April is National Poetry Month, and one author has come up with a way to make poetry fun for kids. Karen Jo Shapiro has taken the rhythms of famous poems and turned them into poetic parodies for ...

With Christmas just around the corner, you might be looking for a few best Christmas poems to read with your kids. Gather the family around the tree and fill your child's imagination with wonder ...

Similarly inspired, Charlotte Pomerantz observes "The brightening/ of lightning/ is sudden, swift,/ and strong," in the title poem in Thunderboom! Poems for Everyone (Front Street, $17.95; ages 9-12).