With Mother’s Day just behind us and Father’s Day on the horizon, it’s only fitting that this Sunday is National Children’s Day in the U.S. Although the origins of a national children’s day go back to ...

Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day," celebrating the winter solstice, is also a children's book illustrated by Carson Ellis. They collaborated by mail. SUSAN COOPER: (Reading) So the shortest day ...

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 ...

For NPR's series "Picture This," illustrator Carson Ellis talks about working with author Susan Cooper to make Cooper's poem "Shortest Day" into a children's book. (This story first aired on Weekend ...

The Loudest Whispers brings together sixty-four pages of illustrated poems exploring the many wonders and worries of childhood.

What may at first glance seem like a simple nature poem holds a deeper meaning that can teach children a lot about our world. First published in 1846, Ralph Waldo Emerson’s “The Mountain and the ...

Springfield school librarian Angela Knight's weekly poem readings inspired a new book. The book, "40 Poems for 40 Weeks," features a poem for each week of the school year. David Harrison, the school's ...

Artist Loryn Brantz said a lot of the parenting books that she read before having kids didn’t capture what being a parent was going to feel like from an emotional standpoint. “It'll say, ‘You need to ...

From Meghan Markle's 'The Bench' to Lil Nas X's 'C is for Country,' these are the best celeb children's books to read right now. Meghan Markle, along with a handful of other celebrities, superstar ...