CHICAGO -- Peh'Tehn Raighn-Kem, 3, is big inspiration in a tiny package as she performs the poem "Hey Black Child" by Countee Cullen on Windy City Live. Peh'Tehn's parents, Lashaun and Andrea Jackson, ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (FOX40.COM) — MOSAIC Children’s Museum will ...

A rural teacher in Hunan uses poetry to help left-behind children express loneliness, hope and resilience. Their poems, rich with imagination and emotion, reveal the hidden worlds of migrant-worker ...

SUSAN COOPER: (Reading) So the shortest day came, and the year died. And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world came people singing, dancing to drive the dark away. COOPER: (Reading) ...

The prolonged absence of parents often places grandparents, as the children's primary caregivers, at the center of their ...

When she was a girl, Lucille Clifton sat on her mother's lap and listened to her recite poetry. Her mother never made it through elementary school, but she knew the power of language, and her poems ...

Jane Yolen and her son, Jason Stemple, team up for their third collaboration in poetry and photos, Least Things: Poems About Small Natures. Tiny creatures such as tree frogs and grasshoppers come to ...

Join South Africa's 'Just One Thing' initiative this festive season and discover how a simple act of care can make a child ...

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. SUSAN COOPER: (Reading) So the shortest day ...