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 ...

When teaching children to read, it’s good to find ways to make reading as enjoyable as possible, that’s why we created a list of 10 short inspirational poems for children. Just like every painting in ...

CHICAGO -- Peh'Tehn Raighn-Kem, 3, is big inspiration in a tiny package as she performs the poem "Hey Black Child" by Countee Cullen on Windy City Live. Peh'Tehn's parents, Lashaun and Andrea Jackson, ...

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 ...

The photographs of Ukrainian children clutching stuffed animals, peering through train windows, and tearfully hugging their fathers—who are also weeping—as they flee their war-torn homeland, are not ...

‘‘You must grow wildly over the graves’’ rings too true for what many of us have known, for what many of us must find ways to tell our children. I write this thinking about Emmett Till and about how a ...

The Wall Street Journal examines the poem, "Only Child," by Billy Collins, from his new book, "The Rain in Portugal" (Random House, Oct. 4). Below the poem, Collins describes his inspiration for the ...