Childhood is a magical time, a period of wonder and innocence. It's a time when we explore the world with curious eyes and ...

There are many reasons why poems serve as good reading material for children, which is why we created a list of funny poems for children. Those reasons include the fact that poetry helps develop a ...

If you ever want to move your child out from the digital world and give them at least a part of your own personal childhood experience, check our list for 9 classic poems for children to memorize. The ...

Who shouted for joy at the birth of the color blue? When I look once more at the sea, does the sea see me or not see me? Why do the waves ask me the same questions I ask them? Libro de las preguntas ...

Written for THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW by Charles de Kay. TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an ...

So many things rhyme with spring: ring, sing, wing, bling -- even the youngest of readers will catch the notion after leafing through this season's richly rhythmic offerings. Blazing Words Cool and ...

Author John Kenney says becoming a parent changed everything for him and his wife of 13 years. And, for Kenney, the best way to process his feelings about parenting two kids, ages 10 and 7, was to ...

My folks could beg or borrow. With “Poem of the Day,” The New York Sun offers a daily portion of verse selected by Joseph Bottum with the help of the North Carolina poet Sally Thomas, the Sun’s ...

A girl walks in a dried up watering hole in 2015 near Matinyani, Kenya. Kenya's Catholic bishops are appealing to the international community for relief food because of a recent drought. (CNS ...

Somewhere in the middle decades of the 20th century, advanced poetic taste decided that sentimentalism in general, and the sentimentalism of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) in particular, was ...

More than 50 years after her grandmother saw the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his famed “I Have a Dream” speech, 9-year-old Leontyn Gbegan spent her Sunday morning in a room overlooking the ...

Thanksgiving often inspires us to get a little poetic. Thinking and speaking about the things we’re grateful for is a time-honored tradition, but it can be hard to put those feelings into words.