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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 about their ...

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 ...

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 ...