Childhood is a magical time, a period of wonder and innocence. It's a time when we explore the world with curious eyes and ...

We present an extract from The Irish Writers Handbook 2025, the essential guide to writing and getting published, with ...

You may know Lewis Carroll as the author of one of the best children's books ever written: the highly imaginative, often silly Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. But you may not be aware that he was ...

Snot and knickers? Grisly teachers? Bouncy, funny poems full of lavatorial humour will go down well with most children, but it is a particular phase they go through, and children are pretty quick ...

Poetry is emotional expression. It provides a way for children to express, examine and understand their feelings. Whether through a funny nonsense poem or a sonnet filled with longing, poems can ...

To capture their experiences, Save the Children invited children from countries around the world to write short poems about COVID-19, life under lockdown, and how the pandemic has changed their lives.