Jack Prelutsky, a well-known children's poet and editor of kids poetry collections, has written poems based on Camille Saint-Saens's "The Carnival of Animals." He will read the poems when the National ...

This pairing of the late Worth's exquisite poems with Jenkins's (What Do You Do with a Tail Like This?) extraordinary, cut-paper illustrations make this a volume to treasure. Characteristic of the ...

So many beautiful books with lyrical texts were published this year, it’s hard to chose one as This Season’s Best. But we chose, anyway. Kudos to “Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright,” made of an animal poem ...

For a lighter take on the environment, clever poems about an array of animals abound in Animal Tracks: Wild Poems to Read Aloud by Charles Ghigna, illus. by John Speirs, a companion to Animal Trunk.

“Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright! An Animal Poem for Each Day of the Year” has a self-explanatory title. This collection covers dogs, cats, mice and horses, along with wolves, monkeys, lions and eagles.

Donkeys, lambs, maple sap in tins, a placenta, “the horizontal loin of daybreak”: Vermont-based poet Lucas Farrell’s new collection moves between an earthy animal atmosphere and moments of ...