Michael Rosen

Harry Horse

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Tales of Ancient Egypt

Weird and wonderful words for every day of the year

Rosen’s Almanac

Life lessons on going under, getting over it, and getting through it

Getting Better

A story of life, death and the NHS

Many Different Kinds of Love

A series of poetry titles for children by many of Britain's greatest poets.

Michael Rosen's Big Book of Bad Things

14 dramatisations and radio readings including Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow and Women in Love

D. H. Lawrence: A BBC Radio Collection

Little Rabbit Lost

Little Rabbit Goes to School

Little Rabbit Runaway

Little Rabbit's Christmas

Little Rabbit's New Baby

Michael Rosen's Book of Very Silly Poems

The word-obsessed BBC comedy panel show

Wordaholics: The Complete Series 1-3

Chocolate Cake

You Wait Till I'm Older Than You!

Fantastic Mr Dahl

Quick, Let's Get Out of Here

Stop What You're Doing And Read This!

The best children's poetry from Agard to Zephaniah

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Michael Rosen is a poet with a superb ear for the rhythms of language

One of our most popular writers &ndash; the champion for every bored, overdrilled, tested-to-tears pupil in the land

I think poetry for children needs to be saved from the cold dissection of right and wrong answers and put back into rooms and halls full of wonder, compassion, haunting, laughter, music and rhythm. We need to hear its many cultures, many voices, many sounds. This is about wide and diverse participation. Diverse verse for all!

Michael Rosen, Children's Laureate 20072009

Hail! Hail! 
 
I come from another 
 
galaxy. 
 
Discover the wierd and wonderful world of martians, woolly saucepans and centrally heated knickers in 100 poems about science and technology from the delightfully irreverent, Michael Rosen, Children's Laureate 2007 - 2009.

Michael Rosen (Author) Michael Rosen is one of the best known figures, not only in the children's book world but also the British arts scene. His first book of children's poems was published in 1974, and he has gone on to write numerous and award-winning children's books such as Quick, Let's get Out of Here, We're Going on a Bear Hunt and Chocolate Cake. Alongside this he performs, teaches, lectures, presents Word of Mouth on BBC Radio 4 and reviews books for the Guardian. He was Children's Laureate from 2007 to 2009, and founded the Roald Dahl Funny Prize in 2008 as part of his laureateship to honour books that make children laugh! Harry Horse (Illustrator) Harry Horse was born in Coventry. He wrote and illustrated several children's books - including THE LAST POLAR BEARS and THE OGOPOGO, which won the Scottish Arts Council Writers' Award. He was well-known as a political cartoonist and produced cartoons for the New Yorker, The Guardian, Scotland on Sunday and The Scotsman. Harry died in 2007.

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