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 ...

“Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright! An Animal Poem for Each Day of the Year” has a self-explanatory title. This collection covers dogs, cats, mice and horses, along with wolves, monkeys, lions and eagles.

The Nigerian author of Half of a Yellow Sun, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, speaks in her Ted Talk, titled The Danger of the Single Story, of how, as a very small child, her reading of British and American ...

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 ...