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Children

Explore poems, videos, and activity for kids, including nursery rhymes.

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  • Poem
    By Nikki Giovanni
    I always like summer best you can eat fresh corn from daddy's garden and okra and greens and cabbage...
  • Poem
    By Linda Sue Park
    For someone to read a poem again, and again, and then, having lifted it from page to brain—the easy ...
  • Poem
    By April Halprin Wayland
    My sister found them. Read them out loud. She’s so proud, she’s running to our parents waving my poems in the ...
  • Poem
    By April Halprin Wayland
    The best clouds in the business are right above me right now. We’re riding in this teal convertible ...
  • Poem
    By Nikki Grimes
    When my dad walks into a room, or down the street, he inches up on me silent as shadow, and I don't ...
  • Poem
    By Nikki Grimes
    Up till now, the math of my life has been pretty simple: friends plus family plus sports. What more ...
  • Poem
    By Nikki Grimes
    I am a door of metaphor waiting to be opened. You’ll find no lock, no key. All are free to enter, at...
  • Poem
    By Nikki Grimes
    I am hardly ever able to sort through my memories and come away whole or untroubled. It is difficult...
  • Poem
    By Nikki Grimes
    I come home, feet about to bleed from angry stomping. “Boy!” says Mom. “Quit making all that racket....
  • Poem
    By Kimberly Blaeser
    We all have the same little bones in our foot twenty-six with funny names like navicular. Together they build ...
  • Poem
    By Renée Watson
    My body is perfect and imperfect and black and girl and big and thick hair and short legs and scraped...
  • Poem
    By Tina Boyer Brown
    Imagine the lunchroom, crowded and wary— seating charts a welcome apprehension. Loose-leaf papers spiraled...
  • Poem
    By Michael Simms
    It turns out you can kill the earth, Crack it open like an egg. It turns out you can murder the sea,...
    An illustration by Edel Rodriguez of two broken eggs on a distressed red background.
  • Poem
    By Linda Sue Park
    Turn off the lights. Wear another layer. (Sounds like a dad.) (Sounds like a mom.) You say hand-me-down...
  • Poem
    By Linda Sue Park
    curve and swoosh of wondrous white brushstroked black the throat and wings modest cap of scarlet stretch...
  • Poem
    By Padma Venkatraman
    They ignored the new boy, snickering behind his back. In silence, I stayed safe. My lips pressed together...
  • Poem
    By Padma Venkatraman
    Think how many long years this tree waited as a seed for an animal or bird or wind or rain to maybe ...
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