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 ...

While you could send funny roses-are-red poems to just about anyone, these rhyming jokes are ideal for sharing with a partner, friends, family and, yep, even kids. If you're sending someone you love a ...

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 ...

Grant was known for writing children’s books, a background that comes through in this kid-friendly Thanksgiving poem. “A Thanksgiving Dinner” is one of the few funny Thanksgiving poems on ...

I might write about some funny situations ... Give time for the children to read aloud their poems to each other, exploring the effects they have created and the impact on their listeners.

The poet Roger McGough introduces and reads some of his best-known poems for children: The writer of this poem Uses a series wild and wonderful similes to describe the writer. The hearer of this ...