We love the concept of this book, which is a collection of ... some slightly darker artwork and eerie poems and folktales, which younger kids might not be so keen on. Our five-year-old is still ...

A children's book of poetry by Zetta Elliott. (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Bianca Cordova) Say Her Name is a poetic call-to-action for older children. Inspired by the U.S.-founded # ...

High-concept picture books introduce the youngest readers to ... cues readers to make like a cat.” Gokce Irten (Kids Can Press, Sept. 201, $18.99, ISBN 978-1-5253-0837-6). Ages 4–8.

What do you get if you add poems that are "Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids" with pictures of yetis and primordial slime?

Tom Angleberger is the author of the popular Origami Yoda series and the Flytrap Files series, as well as several other books ... poetry and have a great time doing it. Now, I’m trying to get ...

(Annick Press) Loris Lesynski's picture book, Boy Soup, was published in 1996. With pictures by Michael Martchenko, this fun, silly poem features a giant with a cold and a group of kids ...

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.

For NPR's series "Picture This," illustrator Carson Ellis talks about working with author Susan Cooper to make Cooper's poem "Shortest Day" into a children's book. (This story first aired on ...

In the spring of 2020, those concepts took on new meaning ... the Young People’s Poet Laureate of the Poetry Foundation in Chicago. Her latest book is “Cast Away,” from Greenwillow Books.

For the past few years, Midlander LeRoy Martin has written poems and drawn illustrations for his own enjoyment. Now, he is combining his passions into an instructional, yet fun book for children ...

Though the craze for coloring books for grown-ups ... had been seen as something for kids, it turns out that adult coloring books are actually how the whole concept started. An early variation ...