What’s the right subject for a poetry collection? Celestial bodies, or bodies in motion on a basketball court? The slowly-then-all-at-once growth of a class garden, or the gradual-then-sudden path of ...

Poetry Month is often the time we remember to teach and read poems with kids and help our children write poetry. But you can read and write poetry with kids all year long–not just during Poetry Month!

I love this batch of nonfiction books for kids with some fabulous titles about animals and the environment, just in time for Spring and Earth Day. You’ll also find a few biographies, poetry books, and ...

Jewish comfort food showed up in one of Lesléa Newman’s first children’s books, “Matzo Ball Moon.” It has been making appearances in her work ever since. “[Food is] part of our every holiday, every ...

In June, I had the privilege of attending the 2025 CLiPPA Poetry Show at the National Theatre in London, run by the Centre of Literacy for Primary Education. It was a real eye-opener: just under 1,000 ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. With Mother’s Day just behind us and Father’s Day on the horizon, it’s only fitting that this Sunday is National ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for when you ...

CORRECTION: The Poetry Power Workshop is April 29, from 10 a.m. to noon. An earlier version of this article had the wrong time. CEDAR RAPIDS — In celebration of April as National Poetry Month, the ...

Robert Frost once said, “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” So it’s no surprise that educators who want their students to think, feel, and express ...

Looking for your next read? Check out the Canadian fiction, nonfiction, poetry, comics and children's books to read in the ...