Poetry Books for Children. Read the best poetry books with children to introduce them to good poems and encourage a love of language, wordplay, sensory images, and rhyme.

In honor of National Poetry Month, we have gathered a selection of new and forthcoming picture books, anthologies, and novels in verse for young readers to enjoy. All of Those Babies by Mylisa ...

What kid wouldn't love poetry with verse like this, about Kevin Durant: “Seven foot/ fast break/ KD/ no brakes/ crosses over/ hesitates/ stutter-steps/ ankles break/ throws it down/ shimmy ...

U.S. National Children's Day is this Sunday. Celebrate with your little ones by reading poetry.

Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for when you feel like laughing.

Newman writes books for adults as well, though her first love is poetry. She has a lot of poems about food, too! “I grew up in Brooklyn and then when I was eight, we moved to Long Island, which ...

Her favorite poetry go-tos include The Illustrated Treasury of Poetry for Children edited by David Ross, anything written by Shel Silverstein, and Maurice Sendak’s Chicken Soup with Rice: A Book ...