Children's Day Poem in English: Childhood is a magical time, a period of wonder and innocence. It's a time when we explore the world with curious eyes and open hearts. Every child, a unique and ...

World Poetry Day is a day which celebrates all things poetry! It's aim is to encourage people to read, write and teach poetry all around the world. Poems can be about anything - a thought, an ...

Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day," celebrating the winter solstice, is also a children's book illustrated by Carson Ellis. They collaborated by mail.

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 ...

In 1999, UNESCO named March 21 World Poetry Day. ... Some of the earliest poems were long epic poems, written as far back as a few thousand years ago. The Epic of Gilgamesh is one such example.