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We are thrilled to have a blog by this year’s Caterpillar Prize judge, Robert Schechter. The results of the prize have not been announced yet, so the blog has been edited to remove any reveal of the prizes!
I want to thank Rebecca O’Connor for continuing to sponsor The Caterpillar Children’s Poetry Prize and for giving me the honor of ...
We are thrilled to have a blog by this year’s Caterpillar Prize judge, Robert Schechter. The results of the prize are included, and as the results’ date and the blog’s date coincide, this week’s blog is going out a little later than normal, to allow the prize results to be announced publicly first!
At the end of a recent school visit, a teacher showed me videos of children outside in the drizzle, performing poems they had created themselves that morning. She told me that during their forest school session, her Key Stage 2 class had written poems with their friends then performed them. I asked her if she had set them the task. “No,” she said, “They decided to do it t...
Books for Keeps has been taking children’s literature seriously since its launch in March 1980 and that includes poetry written for children.
It might seem unnecessary to have to make that point, but if children’s literature is mostly an afterthought as far as the average literary editor is concerned, children’s poetry ...
I collected leaf skeletons. Using magnifying glasses, we observed carefully ...