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

While poetry might seem like the realm of intellectuals, this literary domain is vast, encompassing everything from the love poems we send our sweethearts on Valentine's Day to the funeral poems we ...

and inclusion (and science and math and social studies); the funny poems help to keep the kids “with” me. When they’re having a good time, they listen more carefully. The funny poems also ...

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 ...

Its funny, but its not really what I need ... Working as a group, the children create their poems and perform excerpts at the end of the film. This short film is from the BBC series, Get Creative.

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 ...

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

I wrote about the children we searched at gunpoint ... The readings were a hodgepodge of homilies, rants, and silly cat poems ...

Andrew said: “The poems were never aimed to be anything serious, they’re just for fun. “I think the Scrub Daddy one was my favorite — we got a selection of sponges, a Dish Daddy and lots ...

including “The Llama Who Had No Pajama,” “The Seven Silly Eaters” and “You Read to Me, I’ll Read to You,” Hoberman was named “Children’s Poet Laureate” by the Poetry Foundation ...

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