Children’s Poetry

What are the best sites for children’s poetry? We’ve started with these. What else should be here?

1. Children’s Poetry Archive - A large selection of children’s poetry separated into categories like birds, fathers, feelings and clothes. (www.poetryarchive.org)

2. Poetry for Kids - You’ll find funny children’s poems here, along with games, contests, lessons, forums and even a rhyming dictionary. (www.poetry4kids.com)

3. Forms of Poetry for Children - An extensive listing of different types of children’s poetry, such as stories, riddles, free verse, and poems set to music. (falcon.jmu.edu)

4. Top 10 Children’s Poetry Books - Here are a variety of children’s poetry books, from collections of classics and contemporary poems to poems by Latino poets and poems that celebrate nature. (childrensbooks.about.com)

5. On Originality in Children’s Poetry - This essay discusses the importance and challenges of being original when writing children’s poetry. (www.hbook.com)

6. LaureatesKids.com - Children’s poetry and more by Billy Jones. (laureateskids.squarespace.com)