What may at first glance seem like a simple nature poem holds a deeper meaning that can teach children a lot about our world. First published in 1846, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The Mountain and the ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Keep reading for 30 kids' poems—from ones written with kindergarteners in mind to short ones and long ones and some of the most ...

New picture books by Judith Viorst, Julie Fogliano and Skila Brown. These brief, impressionistic poems about the seasons are all titled with a day of the year, journal-like. Fogliano (“And Then It’s ...

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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 for ...