Lee Bennett Hopkins, passionate educator and prolific children’s poet and anthologist, died on August 8 in Cape Coral, Fla., following a hospitalization for COPD. He was 81. Hopkins was born April 13, ...

Everybody in the world of children’s literature seemed to know Lee Bennett Hopkins, the renowned Cape Coral poet and Florida Hall of Famer who died Thursday at age 81. His many friends included famous ...

A visitation for Lee Bennett Hopkins will be held from 4-6 p.m. Monday at Fuller Metz Funeral Chapel. The Cape Coral poet and anthologist died Thursday at 81. There won’t be a formal service, ...

In the scores of anthologies he compiled and in his own writing, he sought to teach and expand young imaginations through verse. By Neil Genzlinger Lee Bennett Hopkins, who in scores of anthologies he ...

Edited by Lee Bennett Hopkins, illus. by Simone Shin et al. Lee & Low, $19.95 (56p) ISBN 978-1-620143-11-7 An inclusive collection of poets and artists pays homage to cultural and familial inheritance ...

Ed. by Lee Bennett Hopkins, illus. by Jen Corace. Eerdmans, $18.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-8028-5496-4 Featuring 14 persona poems, this anthology features 10 poets anthropomorphizing items that can be found ...