Raise the funny factor of this poem by reading it to your kids in a silly voice. This short quatrain was a hit in 1895, when Gelett Burgess first published his now-famous poem for kids.

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

A bloom of English rose ... which encourages adults to “be children also for to-day.” The poem serves as a reminder that life is short and that rather than sitting alone thinking about ...

Were you conditioned by academia to think that love poems, short poems, funeral poems and ... poke fun at nonsense and others are poems for kids that will make you think as much as they’ll ...

Over the course of six short clips ... some of his most famous poems. These clips are from the BBC series Simon Armitage: Writing Poems. Suitable for: KS3 and GCSE English Literature in England ...