Jack Prelutsky, a well-known children's poet and editor of kids poetry collections, has written poems based on Camille Saint-Saens's "The Carnival of Animals." He will read the poems when the National ...

'Twas the Night Before Christmas at The Animal Shelter, adapted from the Clement Clarke Moore poem 'Twas the night before ...

Readers will welcome back old favorites in several titles this fall. Omnibeasts collects Douglas Florian's witty rhymes, riddles and artwork from among several standby compendiums, including ...

So many beautiful books with lyrical texts were published this year, it’s hard to chose one as This Season’s Best. But we chose, anyway. Kudos to “Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright,” made of an animal poem ...

Humans are sweaty beasts, but it turns out many other animals have different ways to keep cool. Staff of the Maryland Zoo help explain how their residents regulate their temperatures. Now a story ...

From the Economist's Intelligent Life blog: "Ted Hughes didn't just write a lot of poems about animals — about pikes and jaguars and thought-foxes. He thought of poems as animals. 'They have their own ...

The Poet Laureate looks into a tiger’s eyes, holds a giant African land snail in the palm of his hand, and stands in the middle of a room full of spiders as he drafts a brand new animal poem across ...

In wonderful blog coincidences, as I was putting the finishing touches on the animal edit below yesterday afternoon, a woman called the newsroom to say that her daughter had written a poem about ...

The essay situates Kunjana Parashar within the evolving cultural lineage of the “Bombay Poet,” tracing continuities from ...

THORNTON, Colo. — Employees at a local Chick-fil-A went the extra mile to ensure a customer’s child was reunited with his favorite stuffed animal. McKenna Reich said her son Denny lost the stuffed ...