Readers will welcome back old favorites in several titles this fall. Omnibeasts collects Douglas Florian's witty rhymes, riddles and artwork from among several standby compendiums, including ...

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 ...

Humans are sweaty beasts, but it turns out many other animals have different ways to keep cool. Staff of the Maryland Zoo help explain how their residents regulate their temperatures. Now a story ...

Simon Armitage wants to know why we are captivated by unicorns and other fantasy animals. Do they help us think about real animals, and can they help him write his new animal poem? In this episode ...

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 ...

From the Economist's Intelligent Life blog: "Ted Hughes didn't just write a lot of poems about animals — about pikes and jaguars and thought-foxes. He thought of poems as animals. 'They have their own ...