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What do you get if you add poems that are "Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids" with pictures of yetis and primordial slime?
Standing before supporters at a community center fundraising dinner last week, I shared my journey from homelessness to hope.
who remembers discovering Silverstein's poetry when he was a child. "It really blew my mind in the best way because of the wordplay and the sense of fun. And then when I say Rumi for kids ...
Mabel Segun, author of children’s books and Nigeria’s first female table tennis champion, died on 6 March 2025 aged 95.
Columnist Preach Jacobs responds to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s recent remarks about autism and his sister for this week's Fight ...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s oft read poem, Paul Revere’s Ride, begins with the words, “Listen my children, and you shall hear, of the Midnight ride of Paul Revere.” Today’s VFTB narrative opens with ...
Almost overnight, the blonde three-year-old, with her toothy smile and distinctive fleck in her blue-green eyes, became the most famous missing child in ... champion in my age group.
NPR's Leila Fadel speaks with former U.S. poet laureate, Joy Harjo, about her book "Washing My Mother's Body" where she explores the complexity of a daughter's grief as she reflects on her mother's ...
CHAPTER III I remember my first day in school when I was five years old… There were about 30 students. Our classroom was a ...
Coyotes have become ubiquitous in San Francisco, with small packs controlling specific territories like mob families.
Tall Tales triggers some nostalgia for kids’ TV themes and the work of ... who adds her own spoken word to Mother Earth and Poem for My Grandparents, both Holocaust survivors who have inspired ...