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 ...

The kids sit in the shade, talking about dirt. They’re at the distractible ages of 9 to 12, it’s a perfect sunny summer day in Seattle, and they’re involved in discussing soil. They’re animated about ...

What can we learn from children's verse? As the most bodily of literary forms, poetry appeals to children. It also has a certain appeal for adults who read to children. For one thing, good writing in ...