With Mother’s Day just behind us and Father’s Day on the horizon, it’s only fitting that this Sunday is National Children’s Day in the U.S. Although the origins of a national children’s day go back to ...

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 day ...

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 ...

The contemporary dawning of Hebrew song can be traced to the last decades of the nineteenth century, when Jewish poets in Europe began to write Hebrew poetry. However, with new Hebrew educational ...

When I was a child and a blank slate, literarily speaking, I loved anthologies of all sorts—books of diverse mystery stories, books of nonsense poems, books that allowed you to dip in and out of a ...