Beep, beep, beep – enjoy your meal! Hardly a day goes by for children in kindergarten without rhymes. Nevertheless, beyond the spoken word and the musical, poetry for children is a marginal phenomenon, a genre within a literary genre that doesn’t get much attention. The German Academy for Language and Literature wants to change that and this year published its first list of recommendations for children’s poetry under the label “Hai-kuh”, a small square cow with a shark fin, whose name is reminiscent of the Japanese form of poetry, the haiku. Sandra Niebuhr-Siebert, Professor of Education at the Humanistic University of Berlin, explains why this is just a start and why the world needs more poetry.