All these years later, they’re just as appealing and funny and true.” Silverstein seemed to understand children’s anxieties and fantasies in a way that most other children’s fiction ...
While you could send funny roses-are-red poems to just about anyone, these rhyming jokes are ideal for sharing with a partner, friends, family and, yep, even kids. If you're sending someone you love a ...
Students could brainstorm ways in which a poem could be made funny, and when and why you would want to make a poem humorous. Students could have a ‘funny poem’ competition and try to write ...
“Our children just walk into a room and give us a poem.” Standing in the living room that morning watching my little boy play at being an artist moved me to write the following poem. Need a brea ...
This piece was assembled from more than 40 articles by historians, scholars, journalists and the descendants of more than 100,000 children sent from Britain to Canada between 1869 and the 1940s.
To mark National Poetry Day, Farshore’s non-fiction imprint Red Shed has announced the acquisition of A Poem for Every Question, written by Brian Bilston and illustrated by Joe Berger.
Getty Images Poet, playwright, short story and children's writer ... Her chosen poem dealt with loneliness because, as she put it, "isolation is a funny thing". She asked fellow actors to do ...
ATWOOD: (Laughter) Some of them were quite funny. So a lot of it had to ... So I just think of my funeral as a fun time for kids. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) MARTIN: Margaret Atwood, thank you for doing this ...