You may know Lewis Carroll as the author of one of the best children's books ever written: the highly imaginative, often silly Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. But you may not be aware that he was ...

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 ...

My guest this week on Poetry from Daily Life is Janet Wong, who lives in Gig Harbor, Washington. Janet is a graduate of Yale ...

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 ...

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.

“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 ...

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.

Lisa Marie Presley reveals in her memoir she was "always worried" about dad Elvis Presley dying. The star says she "wrote a ...

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 ...

Celebrated children's author Michael Rosen is visiting the Channel Islands as part of the Festival of Words. | ITV News ...

Like a caring father, he promises to make his children secure. Then the next day he is ... One of his lame attempts at being ...

ATWOOD: (Laughter) Some of them were quite funny ... fun time for kids. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) MARTIN: Margaret Atwood, thank you for doing this. It was a real pleasure. Margaret's new collection is ...