We present an extract from The Irish Writers Handbook 2025, the essential guide to writing and getting published, with ...

Shel Silverstein was a master of linguistic mischief, using repetition and creative wordplay to amuse and prepare kids for ...

Now, I tend to write funny rhyming poems. But as I tell kids at school visits, not all poems rhyme and not all poems are funny. But you’ve got to give poetry a chance. Here’s the first poem in ...

A farm and workhouse is bringing a week of action-packed activities for the school holidays to keep children occupied.

Children at Roundhill Academy in ... very chaotic", but described the experience as "really fun". Her classmate Arya, 11, added: "I love poetry and I like to write poetry because it makes my ...

It’s been 86 years since kids in Des Moines, Iowa, went trick-or-treating on Halloween. Thanks to a severe weather forecast, ...

The Poem:99 Children’s Poetry Competition 2024 is now open for submissions. Entrants can be from anywhere in the world. Poems must be 20 lines max and be on the theme of ‘Spirituality’. There are four ...

Walter Bargen and Barbara Leonhard, two poets known and well-loved in mid-Missouri, recently released dispatches into the ...

"However, what many may not realize is how heavy the toll is on children and future generations. Here, a collection of art and poems about the climate crisis written by children around the world.

While we're likely all familiar with quite possibly the most famous Halloween poem for kids — yes, I'm talking about the "trick or treat, smell my feet..." one — there are actually quite a few ...

The world is a beautiful place to be born into if you don’t mind happiness not always being so very much fun if you don’t mind a touch of hell now and then just when everything is fine because even in ...