The perfect gift and preschool craft for Thanksgiving with this free Thanksgiving Handprint Poem Printable. Make a fun ...

Each of the first 6 programmes profiles a different contemporary children’s poet who introduces and then reads a selection of his or her work. The final two programmes focus on classic poetry ...

The poet Roger McGough introduces and reads some of his best-known poems for children: The writer of this poem Uses a series wild and wonderful similes to describe the writer. The hearer of this ...

Paul Engle noted that “poetry is ordinary language raised to the nth power.” As if by magic, poetry books capture feelings that are often elusive and put into words our deepest pain and ...

Shel Silverstein was a master of linguistic mischief, using repetition and creative wordplay to amuse and prepare kids for ...

Now, I tend to write funny rhyming poems. But as I tell kids at school visits, not all poems rhyme and not all poems are funny. But you’ve got to give poetry a chance. Here’s the first poem in ...