Riot Headline Introducing: Reading and Resistance—And How Literature Has Always Been Tied to American Freedom
Poetry

10 Adorable Children Reciting Poems

There are few things in the world cuter than tiny people doing grown up things (although if you’re anything like me puppies are a close rival). Here are ten videos of adorable kids reciting poems.

1. 3-Year-Old Recites “Litany” by Billy Collins

2. 3-Year-Old Payton Jackson Recites “Hey, Black Child” by Countee Cullen

3. Child Dressed as Gandhi Recites Poem in Hindi

4. Young Girl Recites “Save Girl Child,” A Nursery Rhyme Written to Draw Attention to Female Foeticide In India

5. 3-Year-Old Isabella Recites “The Elf and the Dormouse” by Oliver Herford

6. Fatima Aairah Recites “The Sun” by Gareth Lancaster

Also watch a group of adorable English children with adorable Yorkshire accents recite the same poem.

7. 4-Year-Old Selinah July Recites “I Am – Somebody” by Reverend William Holmes Borders

8. Sage Recites “The Grocer’s Children” by Herbert Scott

9. Child Recites “When I Grow Up” by William Wise

10. 5-Year-Old Michaela Recites “All Things Bright and Beautiful” by Cecil Frances Alexander