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Delight your tween with one of the best gifts for 9-year-olds before they round the corner to double digits. We've rounded up ...
Jeanne Bryner and Susan Jacobs are both accomplished in their creative fields — Byner as a poet and author of 11 books ...
Researchers are new to studying the implications of poetry for well-being and the brain. Still, it may surprise you “what a ...
Poetry written especially for children is perfect for those developing brains: because poems for children tend to be short, ...
Year after year, millions of children fall behind in reading, and the consequences are profound: reduced lifetime earnings, ...
I wanted my children to have the relationship they wanted to have with him, separate from anything, my voice in their head. I had a specific idea of the kind of person I wanted to be, and I just ...
There’s something about Han of Stray Kids that feels like déjà vu. Like a character you’ve seen before—staring into the dark just before a show, half-composed, half-collapsing.
Calling all budding poets. Do you love playing in Toronto’s parks? Write a poem and enter the contest by noon on May 5. The Children’s Spring Poetry Contest invites youth six to 14 years old to ...
Charles has been a writer for fifty years and loves to “celebrate life through the eyes of children.” Charles has authored more than 100 books and 5,000 poems. He has given readings at The ...
We thought words travelled the wires / In the shiny pouches of raindrops …” – The Railway Children, Seamus Heaney; Poems on the Underground, January 1986.
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.
In her brand-new podcast, Meghan Markle finally opens up about a “rare and scary” health scare she suffered in silence after giving birth. Revealing that she battled postpartum preeclampsia ...