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Eloise Greenfield (May 17, 1929 – August 5, 2021) was an American children's book and biography author and poet famous for her descriptive, rhythmic style and positive portrayal of the African-American experience. After college, Greenfield began writing poetry and songs in the 1950s while working in a civil service job.
Arnold Adoff (July 16, 1935, in Bronx, New York – May 7, 2021, in Yellow Springs, Ohio) was an American children's writer. In 1988, the National Council of Teachers of English gave Adoff the Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children. He has said, "I will always try to turn sights and sounds into words.
The poem was reproduced in the official school journal, The Merchistonian, in August 1913 (although the poet was not named). [29] By 1915 The Boy in the Train was known to Sir Michael Nairn (1838–1915), industrialist and owner of seven of Kirkcaldy's linoleum factories, [ 31 ] who had the poem printed up as a calling card. [ 32 ]
"This Be The Verse" is a lyric poem in three stanzas with an alternating rhyme scheme, by the English poet Philip Larkin (1922–1985). It was written around April 1971, was first published in the August 1971 issue of New Humanist, and appeared in the 1974 collection High Windows.
There was no way my parents could have known that this one special Christmas toy, with its endless hours of imagination set into a child’s fantasy version of the European Middle Ages, would ...
Being children's poems, many make fun of school life. He wrote his first children's poem, "Scrawny Tawny Skinner", in 1994. In 1997, he decided to write his first poetry book, My Foot Fell Asleep, which was published in 1998. Nesbitt's poem "The Tale of the Sun and the Moon", was used in the 2010 movie Life as We Know It.
A teacher in a school district near the Nebraska border is being accused of banning the word short for charisma along with over two dozen slang words popular among Gen Alpha — kids born after 2009.
Jack Prelutsky (born September 8, 1940) is an American writer of children's poetry who has published over 50 poetry collections. He served as the first U.S. Children's Poet Laureate (now called the Young People's Poet Laureate) from 2006 to 2008 when the Poetry Foundation established the award.