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

While you could send funny roses-are-red poems to just about anyone, these rhyming jokes are ideal for sharing with a partner ...

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 ...

Poetry is fun. It’s a playground for the imagination ... Display and talk about a range of words that will allow children to use and apply their growing phonic knowledge of consonant blends ...

She was the 2021 recipient of the NCTE Excellence in Poetry for Children Award, one of the highest honors that a children’s ...

Poetry is emotional expression. It provides a way for children to express, examine and understand their feelings. Whether through a funny nonsense poem or a sonnet filled with longing, poems can ...

Creative writing, and poetry projects such as this empowers children to express themselves and to have fun with words, which can have such a positive impact on their well-being.” “I really enjoyed ...

For the first time since 1938, children in Des Moines, Iowa, will go trick-or-treating on Halloween. The city began its ...

This guide focuses on games for preschool- and elementary-aged kids, and some that are fun for grown-ups and kids ... and makes a short statement—a sentence, poem, story, song, or even ...

Saturday will also feature an afternoon-long free Family Fun Day @ Dodge Poetry in Newark'sMilitary Park, a first for the festival. The event will fill various corners of the park with poetry ...

THE annual Children’s Book Festival, which is run nationwide throughout the month of October, is a highlight of the Tipperary ...