The Poetry Foundation announced yesterday that poet J. Patrick Lewis will serve as the nation’s third Children’s Poet Laureate: Consultant in Children’s Poetry to the Poetry Foundation for a two-year tenure. The award, which includes a $25,000 cash prize, aims to raise awareness that children have a natural receptivity to poetry and are its most appreciative audience, especially when poems are written specifically for them.
As a child, I fell in love with the music and magic of the countless poems my parents read to me. Some of my favorites, just to name a few, were: "The Village Blacksmith" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear," "The Land of Counterpane" by Robert Louis Stevenson, and "The Raggedy Man" by James Whitcomb Riley.
What were some of your favorite poems as a child? What poems do you like to read today to your own children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, or godchildren?
As a child, I fell in love with the music and magic of the countless poems my parents read to me. Some of my favorites, just to name a few, were: "The Village Blacksmith" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear," "The Land of Counterpane" by Robert Louis Stevenson, and "The Raggedy Man" by James Whitcomb Riley.
What were some of your favorite poems as a child? What poems do you like to read today to your own children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, or godchildren?
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