Many parents read to their young children at bedtime – but it tends to be a story they share with them, rather than poetry. However, the Children’s Laureate, Joseph Coelho is urging mums and ...

Delve into the world of poetry with teachers, exploring metaphors, teaching methods, and fostering a love for verse.

Six leading poets introduce and read some of their best-known poetry for children. There are two additional selections of classic poems read by Maxine Peake and Julian Rhind-Tutt. Grace Nichols ...

To capture their experiences, Save the Children invited children from countries around the world to write short poems about COVID-19, life under lockdown, and how the pandemic has changed their lives.

Award-winning performance poet, author and former Children’s Laureate Joseph Coelho creates an acrostic poem live throughout the programme inspired by contributions from schools across the UK.

In 1951, she married Norman Hoberman, an architect, who illustrated her first book, “All My Shoes Come in Twos” (1957), based on poems she had written for her children. Her husband died in ...