Hey Kids, Find Your Inner Poet!

It's April and that means National Poetry Month, which is the perfect time to try your hand at writing some poetry. Looking for inspiration? Try one of these new books to get your writing juices flowing.

In Daniel Finds A Poem a little boy asks animals in the park, "What is poetry?" He discovers that poetry can be found everywhere in nature.

Daniel Finds a Poem is available in other formats.

Once you've pondered what poetry is, you can experiment with different forms. Learn a Japanese style of poetry and figure out what animals are described in Guess Who, Haiku!

Wet Cement contains poems written in the shape of the objects they describe, also known as concrete poems, like thunder or the Big Dipper.

Poems can also retell well-known stories in a new form. Echo Echo uses reverso poems to describe characters from Greek myths including Persephone, Midas and Narcissus. If you like fairy tales, try reverso poetry collections Mirror Mirror and Follow Follow. To find out more about reverso poetry, check out our April Author of the Month, Marilyn Singer.


Instead of myths and fairy tales, the 21 poems in Jazz Day highlight musicians featured in a famous 1958 photograph taken in Harlem.

If you've caught poetry fever, here are even more new poetry books for kids.

Now go compose some verses! I bet you're a poet and you don't even know it!