If you're looking for something fun to do and you have an iPhone, iPod Touch, or iPad, I just created a free app called Riddles for Kids. You can download it here.

Riddles for Kids includes the funniest kids riddles ever collected in one app, and it's FREE!

What's green, and sings? What time is it when you're on a trampoline? How did Noah see on the Ark at night? Download this free app and find out!

On each beautifully illustrated riddle, simply swipe the screen to reveal the answer. Click the star to bookmark your favorites. And turn on the music and sound effects for even more fun!

Perfect for reading in the car on road trips, or any time at all. Learn a new riddle to make your friends laugh.

What are you waiting for? Download now and start laughing!

My first iPhone/iPod Touch app is now available for free in the Apple App Store. It is a rhyming dictionary called RhymeNow, and is perfect for anyone who is writing songs, poems, raps, etc., and needs to find just the right word.

Download RhymeNow by clicking here.

With RhymeNow you can:

• Quickly find rhymes from a database of 55,000 English words
• View rhymes organized by syllable count or word usage frequency
• Look up words that begin with, end with, or contain a group of letters (e.g., all words that include “cat” anywhere in the word)
• Find words that sound alike (e.g., words that sound similar to “cat”)

RhymeNow is designed for the iPhone and iPod Touch and, unlike similar programs, does NOT require an Internet connection. The entire rhyming database is stored on your device so you do not need to be online to lookup words.

For only 99 cents, it's a terrific deal.

The iLearn Technology blog, an "edublog about integrating technology into the classroom," has written an article on the free eBook edition of My Hippo has the Hiccups, and even gone one step further. They've provided a number of tips an examples of how this online eBook can be used as a classroom teaching tool, and make your poetry lessons fun.

One of their suggestions is:

"Invite your students to create their own silly Kenn Nesbitt inspired poetry. Make a class book of the silly poems and post them as a class ebook on Issuu."

(I'm glad I read the article; I'd never heard of Issuu before, but I'll bet we'll be hearing a lot from them in the future.)

Click here to read How to Integrate My Hippo Has the Hiccups Into the Classroom.

I'm humbled and very pleased by this glowing review of my work on The Book Chook, a children's literature blog by Australian writer Susan Stephenson.

Thanks, Susan!

The TIME for Kids 2010 Poetry Contest ended on the 15th with roughly 1,200 submissions. Many of these entries had poems from multiple students, some as many as an entire class. So I believe there were over 2,000 individual poems.

I'm reading all of them to pick five winners. It may take me a few weeks. Winners will be announced in late April or early May on timeforkids.com and, hopefully, in the print edition of the magazine as well.

If you submitted a poem to the contest, thank you and good luck!

Once again, TIME for Kids is hosting a poetry-writing contest for kids where you can show off your funny poetry-writing skills and possibly even win a cool prize!

Just like last year, I will be the judge. Grand prize winner will get a free autographed copy of my newest book, The Tighty-Whitey Spider: And More Wacky Animal Poems I Totally Made Up and a free online author visit to your class. Each of four finalists will win a free autographed copy of The Tighty-Whitey Spider.

For complete rules and to enter your poem in this year's contest, click here to visit TIME for Kids website.

If you are in New York City this weekend, I will be reading at several locations on Saturday, September 19 and Sunday, September 20. Please join me at any of the following events, all of which are free and open to the public:

Time for Kids is featuring an interview with me called Words to Laugh By in their April 3, 2009 issue. We had a chance to chat about all sorts of things, including my new book My Hippo Has the Hiccups, my school visit programs, why I write poetry, and lots more.

If you read the article online, you can even hear several of the poems from My Hippo Has the Hiccups.

In addition to the feature article, Time for Kids is running a poetry writing contest. The winner will receive a free online author visit from me as well as an autographed copy of my new book. Runners up will each receive autographed books.

I'm running out the door, so I have to make this quick, but I wanted to let everyone know that there is a long interview with yours truly, and a review of My Hippo Has the Hiccups on the wonderful kid lit blog The Miss Rumphius Effect.

Click here to read it.

And hooray for National Poetry Month! Don't forget to check out Greg Pincus' Gottabook blog, which starts off the month with a new poem from Jack Prelutsky.

This is just too funny. Because National Poetry Month is starting tomorrow, and because I have a new book of funny poems, My Hippo Has the Hiccups, the three silly chicks over at the Three Silly Chicks blog, decided to interview me.

I'm only sorry to say that I didn't give them very many serious answers. But can you blame me? They didn't ask me very many serious questions. Instead they asked questions such as "Clown vs. Mime Deathmatch. Pick your winner." So I gave them equally goofy answers.

So, if you'd like to read a particularly warped interview with me, just head on over to Three Silly Chicks.