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- Essay on Children's PoetryBy Jordan DavisTo use Kenneth Koch’s work with children as a model for your own teaching, you have to take children seriously—their feelings, their ideas of beauty, their ways of using language.First, this means...
- Essay on Children's PoetryBy Kevin CanfieldPhoto: Mark SeligerAs the voice of the enormously successful pop band 10,000 Maniacs and, more recently, a solo artist with a series of eclectic albums to her credit, Natalie Merchant has written...
- Essay on Children's PoetryBy Michael Atkinson
Mary Ann Hoberman. Photo by Lois Dreyer.
The best children’s poets look at the subjects most parents are... - Essay on Children's PoetryBy Jeff GordinierOne day it dawns on you that your kid has watched too many episodes of Dora the Explorer. Every time the Dora character known as “Map” shows up on screen and sings, “I’m the Map I’m the Map I’m the...
- Essay on Children's PoetryBy Karen GlennFive Poems NOT to Read before EatingJack Prelutsky’s poems can be frightening or funny. Sometimes they can be both. But these particular poems come with a caution: Don’t read them before breakfast...
- Essay on Children's PoetryBy The EditorsThe Poetry Foundation inaugurated Jack Prelutsky as the nation’s first “Children’s Poet Laureate” in 2006 at the Pegasus Awards ceremony in Chicago. The award is given to a living poet for a career...
- Essay on Children's PoetryBy Susan Hutton“When I was eight,” says poet and anthologist Elise Paschen, “my parents gave me a poetry anthology. There was a magician on its cover, a raven, a cauldron swirling with stars and smoke, and,” she...
- Essay on Children's PoetryBy Bruce Lansky
I remember the day I received a copy of The Real Mother Goose after the birth of my son in 1970. I thought, Oh, I remember reading Mother Goose when I was a boy. What a thoughtful gift! Then I...
- Essay on Children's PoetryBy Joseph T. Thomas Jr.The Norton Anthology of Children’s Literature, edited by Jack Zipes, Lissa Paul, Lynne Vallone, Gillian Avery, and Peter Hunt.W.W. Norton. $65.00 (Slipcase Edition), $67.50 (Textbook)Last year W.W. Norton ...
- Essay on Children's PoetryBy The EditorsRESEARCHFerguson, Margaret, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy, ed. The Norton Anthology of Poetry, Fifth Edition. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2004.Vardell, Sylvia M. Poetry Aloud Here!: Sharing Poetry With Children...