Weekly Children’s Poetry Roundup – Saturday, January 3, 2026

Welcome back, fellow poetry enthusiasts! It’s that time again for our weekly Children’s Poetry Blog Post Roundup. We’ve gathered up all the exciting news and wonderful updates from the world of children’s poetry over the past week, and I’m thrilled to share them with you.

Children’s Poetry Summit

This week, the Children’s Poetry Summit featured a post titled Stephen Lightbown: The Second Book Challenge. In it, Stephen Lightbown shared insights into his upcoming second children’s poetry collection, due in 2026. This new book marks a shift in focus, exploring themes of teenage parental separation and mental health struggles, rather than disability as a central theme. He discussed the challenges he’s faced in finding his unique voice for this new direction and the pressures of entering an already vibrant literary space.

Danna Smith Book Blog

Over on the Danna Smith Book Blog, a post titled 🦅Soar into Learning: Celebrating National Bird Day with The Hawk of the Castle highlighted National Bird Day on January 6th. The post suggests this day is a wonderful opportunity for educators and parents to spark a love for nature and birds in children, specifically recommending the book The Hawk of the Castle as a way to engage young readers.

David L. Harrison

David L. Harrison shared several thoughtful posts this week. He began with My New Year wish, where he hoped for a reduction in daily negativity and offered a wish for serenity. He then posted a poem, Moving on, inspired by Goose Lake, reflecting on a squirrel’s bold leap to a new branch as a metaphor for embracing the future with courage. Finally, David shared his excitement about seeing the newly published Brazilian translation of his book, A Tree is a Community, for the first time in his post A Tree in Portuguese.

DreamBeast Poems

At DreamBeast Poems, Mark Bird featured a wonderful New Year’s poem this week. Titled New Year Resolution Poem for kids and adults – Be More You. New Year Poem., it offered a heartfelt message for both children and adults to embrace their authentic selves and individuality as they begin the new year.

Joshua Seigal

Joshua Seigal brought some humor to the week with his post Menagerie Tragedy – a comic poem. This delightful poem describes a collection of farm and wild animals that have all inexplicably lost their characteristic sounds, humorously implying that something or someone has left them speechless.

Kate Williams

Kate Williams shared her poem Smarty Snail, which uses the imagery of snails to explore themes of resilience and finding beauty in slow, deliberate processes. Her work suggests that embracing a slower pace can lead to unique and meaningful experiences in life.

Live Your Poem

On Live Your Poem, Irene Latham posted STILL & WOMEN for 2026! This entry announced Poetry Friday and introduced her “One Little Word” for 2026 as “STILL.” Irene explored themes of stillness and the power of art to overcome adversity, specifically highlighting female artists like Artemisia Gentileschi, and sharing a new poem inspired by her.

Reflections on the Teche

Margaret Simon shared a poem for Poetry Friday, titled Poetry Friday: This is January. Written in response to a challenge from host Catherine Flynn, the poem thoughtfully reflects on the quiet hopes, dreams, and simple riches that can be found even in the midst of winter.

Shaun Jex

And Shaun Jex offered an insightful look into a poetic device with his post A Peck of Pickled Peppers: Poetry and Alliteration. He explored alliteration, explaining how the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words enhances musicality and creates specific effects in poetry. Shaun provided excellent examples from nursery rhymes, classic poems like “The Tyger,” and epic verses, then concluded with a prompt for readers to practice alliteration in their own writing.

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