A local writer has published a new children's book about a baby bug chasing a firefly. Nancy Reed, a Bovina native, said that having grown up on a dairy farm, she always had a "fondness for the ...

When poetry editor Lou Peacock compiled A Whale of a Time: Funny Poems for Each Day of the Year, she chose Rita Dove’s “The First Book” to be the entry for January 1. The poem describes what it’s like ...

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 ...

Marvin Cook's children's book on Pinky took home a Royal Palm Literary Award, and Rhett DeVane won top prizes for two books.

If you've found yourself reading the same picture book over and over (and over and over) to a small but determined audience we see you and salute you! Perhaps you'd like to add a few new titles to the ...

Robert Frost once said, “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.” So it’s no surprise that educators who want their students to think, feel, and express ...

At a loss for words? Poetry expresses the feelings we struggle to convey. Open any poetry book for proof: You’ll find love poems for romantic moments, silly rhymes for kids and limericks for when you ...

In his new poetry collection, “Above Ground,” award-winning writer Clint Smith explores the transformative experience of becoming a father, from seeing the world’s joys and tragedies anew to the ...

In June, I had the privilege of attending the 2025 CLiPPA Poetry Show at the National Theatre in London, run by the Centre of Literacy for Primary Education. It was a real eye-opener: just under 1,000 ...