My Latin teacher, Mrs. Jones, made me memorize this quote from the Aeneid  when I was 15-- Sunt lacrimae rerum, et mentem motilia tangunt (T...

A Little Bitty Man and Other Poems for the Very Young , by Halfdan Rasmussen, translated by Marilyn Nelson and Pamela Espeland , and illust...

So there I was, peacefully reading my little one the poems of A.A. Milne, from When We Were Very Young and Now We are Six , and we were enj...

Nursery Rhyme Comics -- "fifty classic verses illustrated in comics form by today's greatest cartoonists!" (2011, First Secon...

When I was eleven, I met the word "postulate" for the first time. It was in the following poem: "Probable-Possible, my black ...

For Poetry Friday, and also for Tidy Up Loose Books Day (which we actually celebrate every day in our house), I offer Mother Goose Picture P...

Zog , by Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler (Alison Green Books, 2010 in the UK) By happy chance the Book Depository accidentall...

Looking for Luna , by Tim Myers, illustrated by Mike Reed (Marshall Cavendish 2009) "We're after a cat, a soft-stepping cat, I'...

I don't often post straight poems, but this one I found recently is so very much on topic viz science fiction/fantasy that I wanted to s...

The Wonder Book , by Amy Krouse Rosenthal , illustrated by Paul Schmid (Harper Collins, 2010, 79pp), is a feast of poetry, puns, short stor...

Just for fun, and a change of pace, here are three rhyming picture books in honor of Poetry Friday (a weekly roundup of poetry related posts...

Button Up!: Wrinkled Rhymes , by Alice Schertle, illustrated by Petra Mathers (Harcourt 2009) came my way recently when I was lucky enough ...

Guest , by Rabindranath Tagore Lady, you have filled these exile days of mine With sweetness, made a foreign traveler your own As easily as ...

We live in an old house with porous borders, and have an inadequate cat. So as the weather has gotten colder, the number of mice with whom w...

For Poetry Friday today, I have I know an Old Teacher , by Anne Bowen, illustrated by Stephen Gammell (2008, Carolrhoda Books), which arriv...

Today was decidedly mixed. On the plus side, I got the sewer bill paid, and some other small but pressing business of that sort attended to...

Welcome to Poetry Friday! Please leave a link in the comments, and as the day progresses (the dropping off of children at school--hooray! th...

All around our bird feeder and beyond sunflowers grow; I've learned to recognize the babies and, within reason, I let them be when I wee...

Today I am offering a bit of the poetry of the great 20th century Korean poet, Seo Jeong-ju , which I found here . Here's a poem for al...

SHELTERED GARDEN I have had enough. I gasp for breath. Every way ends, every road, every foot-path leads at last to the hill-crest— then you...