Kudos to "Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright," made of an animal poem for each day of the year, a big, lavishly-illustrated anthology.

Animal Poems of the Iguaz/Animalario del Iguaz Francisco X. Alarcon, , illus. by Maya Christina Gonzalez. . Children's Book Press, $16.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-89239-225-4 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This collection of poems from Morpurgo, illustrated by his long-time collaborator Foreman, is based on “The Carnival of the Animals” by Saint-Saëns. The animals speak in their own voices ...

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 ...

Kate Hosford, illus. by Jennifer M. Potter. Running Press Kids, $19.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-762467-14-3 In this magnetic, informative collection, playful poems explore the surprisingly varied sleeping ...

The poems date back nearly 2,000 years, spanning multiple dynasties. Since then, the Yangtze finless porpoise, which calls the Yangtze River its home, has lost more than half of its habitat.

Ruben Quesada’s short poem reminds me of Edward Hopper’s paintings in their austere and mysterious scenes, leaving the viewer curious about the people in the paintings and the unspoken secrets ...