As April comes to an end, so does National Poetry Month. If you love poetry or want to explore the genre more – young adult verse is an outstanding category to explore. Verse novels use a blend of ...

“Author Reynolds and artist Griffin, friends and previous collaborators, explore recent events in America through a poetic multimedia partnership,” our starred review said, noting Reynolds’s “spare ...

Goodfellow returns to his narrator Nate in The First Year - Joe Todd-Stanton A generation ago, children’s novels written in verse were something of a rarity. But in 2019, they made up almost half the ...

Adept at both verse and prose, novelist Sarah Crossan, who has just ended her term as Ireland’s Children’s Laureate, is especially passionate about novels-in-verse and the ownership they allow young ...

If I were the questing type, the type who might travel to the peak of a very high mountain and demand things of the sky, I might demand a certain kind of book. I wouldn't expect that book to be a ...

When I finished “The Door of No Return” by poet and fiction writer Kwame Alexander, not only was I deeply moved, but I knew I’d read a story that we need now in children’s literature. Alexander’s just ...

When Kaija Langley was 6, her best friend died of sudden cardiac arrest. Nobody acknowledged or spoke about the tragedy in a genuine or helpful way, and she was left to process her grief alone. Now ...

How does a Calcutta-born economist and Asian scholar happen to write a novel composed of sonnets about yuppies in San Francisco? For Vikram Seth, inspiration struck in a Stanford bookstore, where he ...

Dorothy Porter, 54, an acclaimed Australian poet best known for crime novels set in verse, died Wednesday from complications of breast cancer in Melbourne, where she had lived since 1993, said agent ...