Ready to get the poetry train rolling? Read these children's poems with your kiddo and unlock the best parts of their imagination. Get Reader's Digest’s Read Up newsletter for more poetry ...

Read more about this form of poetry here. Read the best poetry books with children to introduce them to good poems and encourage a love of language, wordplay, sensory images, and rhyme.

Poetry written especially for children is perfect for those developing brains: because poems for children tend to be short, ...

From delightful Christmas poems for kids that inspire little ones to become Santa’s little helpers to famous poems that bring warmth and joy to cold winter days, these poems capture the magic of ...

Below, you’ll find a selection of amusing poetry: Some imagine fun fantasy scenarios, some are just well-constructed limericks that poke fun at nonsense and others are poems for kids that will ...

Six leading poets introduce and read some of their best-known poetry for children. There are two additional selections of classic poems read by Maxine Peake and Julian Rhind-Tutt. Grace Nichols ...

The poet Roger McGough introduces and reads some of his best-known poems for children: The writer of this poem Uses a series wild and wonderful similes to describe the writer. The hearer of this ...

Harrison, who has written dozens of books, contributed one poem and reached out to other poets to select or write one for children. "I started contacting poets. It didn't take long," Harrison said.