Welcome to Poetry4kids. I’m Kenn Nesbitt. Today I’d like to share a fun new holiday poem with you. With Christmas just around the corner, I found myself wondering how many days were left until the big

Welcome to Poetry4kids. Im Kenn Nesbitt. I grew up in a part of California where it never snowed, but every now and then my parents would take me and my brothers to the nearby mountains in the winter

Welcome to Poetry4kids. Im Kenn Nesbitt. With Thanksgiving just around the corner here in the US, I wanted to write a fun poem about the holiday that captures the feeling of overindulging at a big fa

Welcome to Poetry4kids. Im Kenn Nesbitt. A couple of years ago my friend, the childrens poet Janet Wong, asked if I would contribute a poem to an anthology she was creating with childrens literatur

Welcome to Poetry4kids. Im Kenn Nesbitt. As a student, I remember being so tired in school some days that I would fall asleep at my desk and the teacher would have to wake me up. I was never so tired

Ideas for poems can come from lots of different places. Sometimes when I write a poem, the idea starts with a single word or a phrase. In this case, I was thinking about the upcoming holidays, Hallowe

Welcome to Poetry4kids. Im Kenn Nesbitt. With Halloween just around the corner, I wanted to write a poem about the holiday. I had already written a poem about spooky monsters called The Monsters Th

Every now and then, theres a day when you just dont want to get out of bed. Rather than take on the new day, you just want to stay under the blankets and sleep. I wrote this poem because I started t

I recently had a half birthday, which falls in August since my real birthday is in February. Because of this, I was thinking about writing a half-birthday poem. By the time I started working on it,

I wrote this poem in honor of my dear friend, the childrens poet Jack Prelutsky, who turned 84 in recently. Jack was born in 1940, which, according to Chinese astrology, was the Year of the Dragon. I