Beginning next month, librarians, teachers, and booksellers will have an opportunity to recognize one of their own for supporting Black-authored children’s poetry, in honor of a writer who specialized ...

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 ...

April is National Poetry month! We are celebrating by inviting kids to share their poetry at the library. Throughout the month of April, children in grades 5 and below may bring their original poems ...

In honor of National Poetry Month, we have gathered a selection of new and forthcoming picture books, anthologies, and novels in verse for young readers to enjoy. All of Those Babies by Mylisa Larsen, ...

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Whether riffing on homework, dragons, pizza or dot-gobbling Flotz, Seattle's Jack Prelutsky is arguably the nation's most popular children's poet. His works, which span nearly 40 years and 35 volumes, ...

When poetry editor Lou Peacock compiled A Whale of a Time: Funny Poems for Each Day of the Year, she chose Rita Dove’s “The First Book” to be the entry for January 1. The poem describes what it’s like ...

Olympic Theatre Arts’ fledgling Reader’s Theatre Club will perform two matinee shows of the children’s poetry book turned play “I Smile at the Sun: Verses for Children and Misidentified Grownups” at 2 ...