April is National Poetry Month, and Julie Fogliano’s When Green Becomes Tomatoes: Poems for All Seasons , with pictures by Julie Morsta...

Kwame Alexander wrote his 2015 Newbery-winning novel The Crossover in poems that slip off the tongue effortlessly. The e...

Kathryn Fitzmaurice Photo credit: Audie England In Destiny, Rewritten, Karthryn Fitzmaurice writes about a parent wishing for her daug...

Poetry gives us a way to look closely and contemplate deeply things we take for granted. In the Sea by David Elliott, illustrated by Holly ...

Perhaps, like me, you might at first resist the idea of the subtitle for Poem in Your Pocket for Young Poets: 100 Poems to Rip Out & Rea...

Poetry is about savoring the moments. Haiku celebrates moments to be savored in nature. Bob Raczka’s Guyku: A Year of Haiku for Boys , illus...

Grief is such an all-consuming experience. When grief strikes, the ground shifts like an earthquake, and then the tremors continue for days,...

For those of you who’ve been following along for awhile, you already know how passionately I believe in reading aloud together. I’m privileg...

Few things give me as much pleasure as words put together well and in surprising combinations. Perhaps that’s why I’m continually attracted ...