X.J. Kennedy, an award-winning poet, author, translator and educator who schooled millions of students through "The Bedford Reader" and other textbooks and engaged voluntary readers with his ...

Spurning the iconoclastic free verse of many of his contemporaries, he held to an older tradition. He also wrote spirited ...

Do you remember Mother Goose? Are you familiar with the nursery rhyme, “Mary Had a Pretty Bird?” What about “The Cuckoo”? Thanks to singer-songwriter-artist-activist Natalie Merchant, students from ...

The Library of Congress has a collection of books that would make any bookworm turn green with envy. One of their most fascinating collections is their rare children's book library. Visitors can read ...

In one of Bengaluru’s most elite neighbourhoods, Judicial Layout, residents are fighting a daily battle not with traffic, but with the very roads beneath their feet. The area, home to judges, IAS ...

It comes after a theatre production of the kids’ classic Three Little Pigs was slammed for slapping on a trigger warning NURSERY rhyme Hickory Dickory Dock has been given a trigger warning after ...

Mother’s Day is a special time to show love and appreciation to the most important woman in our lives—our mother. From giving hugs when we’re sad to helping with school projects, moms do so much for ...

Tom Angleberger is the author of the popular Origami Yoda series and the Flytrap Files series, as well as several other books for kids. Here he reflects on his new book, Dino Poet: A Graphic Novel, ...

“We both believe that literature begins in the cradle,” write Yolen and Dyer at the beginning of this collection of 75 brief but vivid poems. Most are originals from Yolen (10 poems are credited to ...

While we're likely all familiar with quite possibly the most famous Halloween poem for kids — yes, I'm talking about the "trick or treat, smell my feet..." one — there are actually quite a few ...

It's a rite of passage many parents are familiar with – that emotional experience sending kids off to kindergarten for the first time. Utah mom Tavia Wade knows it well, since she and her husband saw ...