In fact, there are plenty of poems for kids that are both entertaining and enlightening. From our earliest moments, we're surrounded by poetry in the form of nursery rhymes, storybooks and singalongs.

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Rhyming can help with early literacy. Children's author Vicky Cowie picks her favourite books given life by couplets.

Aimed at introducing children to a universe full of words, this 20x10 minute series is an interstellar journey to discover laugh out loud poems and rhymes. It's poetry but not as we know it!

But you used to. Think about it. “What do we read to our children every night?” asked Derek Sheffield, Poetry Editor of Terrain.org (and author of the collection of poetry Buy at Amazon). Right.

Explain to the children that they are going to try and work out the words missing from the end of each rhyming couplet; a pair of lines from a poem where the final words of each line rhyme and ...

Aimed at introducing children to a universe full of words, this 20x10 minute series is an interstellar journey to discover laugh out loud poems and rhymes. It's poetry but not as we know it!

Well, badly handled rhyme is not to love, but more of that later. Snot and knickers? Grisly teachers? Bouncy, funny poems full of lavatorial humour will go down well with most children ...