Charles Ghigna (Father Goose) is the author of more than 50 books of poetry. His books have been featured on ABC’s "Good Morning America," PBS, and NPR, have been selected by the Book-of-the-Month Club, and have received the Parents' Choice Book Award and the National Parenting Honor Award. His poems for children and adults have appeared in hundreds of textbooks, anthologies, magazines from Harper's and the New Yorker to Highlights and Cricket.

Ghigna has served as poetry editor of The English Journal for the National Council of Teachers of English and has presented poetry programs at the Library of Congress, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the American Library in Paris, the International Schools of South America and at hundreds of other schools, colleges, conferences, libraries, book fairs, and literary events throughout the world.  For more information, please visit FatherGoose.com.

Photo: Debra Ghigna


Recent Bibliography

 Barn Storm! Random House, Sept. 2010
 Mice Are Nice, Random House
 Snow Wonder, Random House
 See the Yak Yak, Random House
 One Hundred Shoes, Random House
 Oh My, Pumpkin Pie! Random House
 SCORE! 50 Poems to Motivate and Inspire, Abrams
 Animal Tracks: Wild Poems to Read Aloud, Abrams
 Animal Trunk: Silly Poems to Read Aloud, Abrams
 Halloween Night: Twenty-One Spooktacular Poems, Running Press
 A Fury of Motion: Poems for Boys, Boyds Mills Press
 Christmas Is Coming! Charlesbridge Publishing
 If You Were My Valentine, Simon and Schuster
 Haiku: Travelers of Eternity, River City Press
 The Alphabet Parade, River City Press
 Love Poems, Crane Hill Publishers