Beginning next month, librarians, teachers, and booksellers will have an opportunity to recognize one of their own for supporting Black-authored children’s poetry, in honor of a writer who specialized ...

April is National Poetry Month. In honor of a month set aside for the celebration of poetry, I'd like to highlight some new books of poetry for children available at the Iowa City Public Library. A ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. With Mother’s Day just behind us and Father’s Day on the horizon, it’s only fitting that this Sunday is National ...

Among the books hitting shelves next week are a picture book about a snowman grappling with their identity, a dual timeline ...

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 ...

Writing poetry can seem overwhelming, especially for children. Rules, rhyme schemes, rhetorical devices — where does one even begin? But poetry does not have to be daunting. It can actually be pretty ...

The contemporary dawning of Hebrew song can be traced to the last decades of the nineteenth century, when Jewish poets in Europe began to write Hebrew poetry. However, with new Hebrew educational ...

I remember the first time I picked up Shel Silverstein’s Where the Sidewalk Ends in my elementary school library. It was filled with delightfully clever and funny rhymes, and the words danced off my ...

The Rochester Children and Teens Book Festival has been a treasured annual event for the greater Rochester community and beyond for 28 years, now renamed to reflect the ...