Poetry can improve kids’ well-being ... Poetry has some unique linguistic characteristics that set it apart from other types of writing. Compared to traditional prose, poetry often communicates ...

They now have an illustrated book of poetry called Words with Wings and Magic Things. "One of the ways I describe this book is Shel Silverstein meets Rumi for kids," says Burgess, who remembers ...

“The difficulty was in choosing between vastly different types of poem of comparable ... work”, has published three collections of poetry for children – Creatures, Teachers and Family ...