Every Friday, bloggers in the
kidlitosphere enthusiastically offer up their favorite poems for kids.
Susan Thomsen takes a tour through this billowing online community.
Jack Prelutsky, the nation's first Children's Poet Laureate, discusses the work, writing habits, and fashion preferences of his friend, children's novelist, and poet Nikki Grimes, sharing a few of her newest, unpublished poems along the way.
As the first ever Children's Poet Laureate,
Jack Prelutsky is turning the high-beam from all the publicity on other fine poets writing for children today. Each month during his tenure, he'll tell you a bit about a poet he admires, and then select a few favorite poems and books by that author.
In partnership with Furious Flower Poetry Center at James Madison University, Dr. Maya Angelou, and the Target Corporation, the Poetry Foundation has developed curriculum for teaching essential African American poetry to students of all ages.
Do your students forget scientific facts an hour after the quiz? The rhythms and rhymes of Robert Frost’s poems can make them stick.
Karen Glenn steps you through how to find the science in Frost’s poems about fireflies, birches, the solstice, and growing fruit.
After entertaining kids with his wild and wacky verse for over 30 years, Jack Prelutsky has been named Children's Poet Laureate by the Poetry Foundation. Just what is it that makes his poems such a hit with kids?
Karen Glenn clues us in.
The Poetry Foundation inaugurated
Jack Prelutsky as the
nation’s first “Children’s Poet Laureate” on September 27 at the Pegasus Awards ceremony in Chicago.
Known for getting big laughs out of kids with his poems, children's poet
Bruce Lansky takes a moment to get serious about children's anthologies. The "King of Giggle Poetry" lets us know which anthologies contain the poems children
should read.
Writing 85 years after the fact, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow can't be blamed too much for getting a couple of things wrong in his poem, "Paul Revere's Ride."
Brian Leigh Dunnigan explains how things really were.
We asked nationally respected children's literature experts to put together for librarians, educators, and parents a list of books essential to a superb children's poetry library. The list includes anthologies, collections of contemporary and classic poetry by individual authors, and poetry collections that include audio recordings on tape or CD.
Before It Wriggles Away
