Guest post by Kenn Nesbitt, poet and founder of Poetry for Kids. Read his book, My Hippo Has the Hiccups FREE in April.  See below for details. I visit a lot of schools and libraries, and I speak to as many as 30,000 kids each year. Because the poems I write tend to be creative and imaginative, one of the most common questions I get is “where... [read more ]

I want your child to love writing.  I want to show how fun words and writing can be. We are born loving play.   We delight in the silly, the ordinary, and wonder when we are young.  It is this gift of youth, the perspective we so often lose as adults, that makes children amazing writers.  The eyes of a child are the eyes of a poet. All children... [read more ]