Nursery rhymes have been around for a long time and are still loved by kids and parents today. These short, fun poems are easy to remember and often come with catchy tunes or hand movements. They help ...

When I met my wonderful wife Rose, we found it funny that we were both writers. I wrote comedy for television and advertising, and she was a gifted (Pulitzer-nominated!) journalist and poet. Rose ...

Who says rhyme has to have reason? Somewhere it lurks beneath the surface of “Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook,” but in Shel Silverstein’s posthumous volume of kid’s poetry, logic is far from the only ...

Previously released titles are brought to new life. Mary Middling and Other Silly Folk: Nursery Rhymes and Nonsense Poems takes poems first published in the U.S. in 1932 as Fifty-One New Nursery ...

There are many reasons why poems serve as good reading material for children, which is why we created a list of funny poems for children. Those reasons include the fact that poetry helps develop a ...

What may at first glance seem like a simple nature poem holds a deeper meaning that can teach children a lot about our world. First published in 1846, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The Mountain and the ...