This pairing of the late Worth's exquisite poems with Jenkins's (What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?) extraordinary, cut-paper illustrations make this a volume to treasure. Characteristic of the ...

Readers will welcome back old favorites in several titles this fall. Omnibeasts collects Douglas Florian's witty rhymes, riddles and artwork from among several standby compendiums, including ...

Animal poetry is political, says Mikael Vogel. In his poetry collection "Dodos On The Run" he questions man's responsibility for the mass extinction of animals in plain words. The poet and author ...

A recent and generous review of a volume of my new and selected poems, The Other Side of Daylight, notes that its title echoes Rainer Maria Rilke’s writing of a feeling “that he had reached the other ...

We humans exploit other animals. But can we see them from a different perspective? Our new columnist Manon Hopf is exploring the poetry of other animals. I want to try to deconstruct this dominant, ...

THE PUFFIN KEEPER By Michael Morpurgo Illustrated by Benji Davies Is it justifiable to worry as much about animal welfare as about human welfare in times of suffering? Is it moral to stop and consider ...

When she first introduced her poetry, Cut My Tongue, many were tongue-tied by her choice of title. But, Betty Wamalwa-Muraguri says, this was an opening to the beginning of door as a poet. There is ...

Countless picture books follow the same narrative structure, in which a character faces a challenge and then — at the end of approximately 500 words — overcomes that challenge, or doesn’t. We call ...