Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day," celebrating the winter solstice, is also a children's book illustrated by Carson Ellis. They collaborated by mail. SUSAN COOPER: (Reading) So the shortest ...

Plants, so often the minor characters in stories about charismatic living things, are the stars of this vividly illustrated ...

“A Forest Song” by Kirsten Hall, illustrated by Evan Turk: In the backmatter of this book, Hall explains ... These are my favorite kind of children’s poems: rhyming with a bouncy cadence ...

Like the best children’s books, and the most gripping fairy tales, Glück’s poems do not present an innocent, uniformly happy vision of childhood—or of family relations. Take “Gretel in ...

In this book, we follow a child who will be spending the holidays ... The University of Arizona Poetry Center is now closed for its annual holiday break. It will reopen on Monday, Jan. 7.

she’s focused on building a better world for the next generation with a children’s book “that underscores the importance of community and allyship,” Gorman said. Gorman’s inaugural poem ...

That was the moment I fell in love with poetry. I begged my parents to buy the children’s book for me so I could read and re-read my favorites, and decades later, the tattered hardcover (the ...

Brown Girl is my first children’s book. It’s illustrated by Cozbi Cabrera and published by Little Brown Readers, which is an imprint of Hatchette Book Group. It’s based on my poem ...

Harrison, who has written dozens of books, contributed one poem and reached out to other poets to select or write one for children. "I started contacting poets. It didn't take long," Harrison said.