Raise the funny factor of this poem by reading it to your kids in a silly voice. This short quatrain was a hit in 1895, when Gelett Burgess first published his now-famous poem for kids.

What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written? Shakespearean love poems? Something longer ...

The poet Roger McGough introduces and reads some of his best-known poems for children: The writer of this poem Uses a series wild and wonderful similes to describe the writer. The hearer of this ...