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.

Reading and writing poetry can help kids develop empathy and problem-solving skills. But it's also just plain fun to play with words.

Amanda Gorman made her voice heard in January 2021 while reading the poem for President Joe Biden’s inauguration. Four years later, she’s helping children find their voice with her new picture ...

“Poetry helped me take my mind off being kept away from the outside world.” Like Jimenez, many kids are grappling with stress. Poetry is a creative outlet that can help them express themselves ...

One of the most talked about moments from the Women in the World Summit 2015, an annual event that aims to explore "the struggles and triumphs of women and girls around the globe" that was held in ...

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 ...

Lockdown Poems from Children Across the World Experiencing Life During COVID-19. Since March 2020, the lives of billions of children been turned upside down due to the Coronavirus pandemic.Today, ...

Discover short and easy poems on World Environment Day for kids and students. These simple, rhyming verses inspire environmental awareness and are perfect for school events, recitations, and ...

Children from a Leicestershire secondary school joined 273,000 others worldwide for what they hope will be the world's biggest poetry class. Year seven at Roundhill Academy in Syston collaborated ...

It was more like my children kind of broke me open and all these poems started pouring out,” she said. “It was like mind, body, and spirit – broke.” Loryn Brantz and her kids, Ronen, 2 ...

Published in the Forverts in 1986 on Shneiderman’s 80th birthday, the poem, “My Child, You Are a Refugee,” is voiced by a father (Shneiderman himself) to his 4-year-old daughter (Shneiderman ...

Joshua Clover’s “My Life in the New Millennium” begins with a thorny, if familiar, either/or. Then the poem moves quickly to accrue its juxtapositions and surprises, providing room for both ...