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Working with ChatGPT to create a custom children's book was an exercise in a lot of back and forth to get it right -- and a ...
When children write poetry, they often jump in with only a vague idea then follow where it leads — adults can do that, too, ...
Susan Cooper's poem "The Shortest Day," celebrating the winter solstice, is also a children's book illustrated by Carson Ellis. They collaborated by mail.
Meghan Markle wrote a children's book, The Bench, based on a Father's Day poem inspired by Prince Harry and their son Archie ...
In “Baby, I Don’t Care,” one of the most unusual and persuasive books of poems I’ve read in some time, Minnis is not merely conducting a droll séance with the help of Turner Classic ...
What makes a Christmas poem? It could be a drift of snow or some evergreen trees, a box of candy canes or the baby Jesus. The best-known poem attending to the holiday is probably “A Visit from ...
Actor and marijuana activist isn’t enough: now Woody Harrelson has dipped his toe into poetry. Earlier this week, Twitter user Dani Grier Mulvenna shared a photo of her child, Cora, jokingly ...
Amanda Gorman's book based on the poem "The Hill We Climb" was restricted in a Florida school in May.
Almost every line in Chelsey Minnis’s Baby, I Don’t Care could have been lifted from a hard-boiled detective flick or a tough-talking screwball comedy.
Amanda Gorman made her voice heard in January 2021 while reading the poem for President Joe Biden’s inauguration. Four years later, she’s helping children find their voice with her new picture ...
As an adult with a nostalgic affinity for children’s literature, I’ve enjoyed perusing the exhaustive list of wonderful kids’ books that Susan Orlean posted Friday after asking readers to ...
A new book, “The Collected Poems of Delmore Schwartz,” lets us see this rumpled prodigy fresh. Though his reputation has dimmed, Schwartz has not vanished from bookshelves.