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 ...

A few days after my mother passed last January, I found myself drawn to a book on my coffee table. Its cover showed a little ...

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 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, ...

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, ...

Poet Curt Curtin was well known in Worcester's poetry circles. His wife and collaborator, Dee O'Connor, talks about two ...

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 ...

Actor and writer Bob Odenkirk and his children, Erin and Nate Odenkirk, discussed their children’s poetry book Saturday in Cahn Auditorium as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival’s annual Evanston ...

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 ...

Finally, there are signs of spring. So we’re beginning this roundup of children’s picture books with two by St. Paulite Sarah Nelson that celebrate parks and frogs. What better topics to remind us of ...