Michael Rosen's Selected Poems is a wonderfully moving sequence of prose poems extracted from his acclaimed autobiographical triptych, Carrying the Elephant, This is Not My Nose and In the Colonie. In a series of artful, deceptively simple poems, Rosen covers a vast terrain, collating vivid and fragmentary memories from his left-wing Jewish upbringing, his teenage holiday at a socialist summer camp in France, his London childhood and the death of his eighteen-year-old son from meningitis. He takes in, along the way, marriage, divorce, births and the undiagnosed illness (an underactive...
Michael Rosen's Selected Poems is a wonderfully moving sequence of prose poems extracted from his acclaimed autobiographical triptych, Carrying the El...
A brand-new collaboration between this famous poet and exceptional illustrator Terri-Lee is applying for a new job. She arrives at the pet shop and is led into a back office for her interview. Apple Crumble, the dog, is sitting behind the desk. Crumble grills Terri-Lee about his basket, vet trips, what he'll get to eat and not running too fast. Crumble is very particular about his owners, will Terri-Lee's dance moves and tickling be enough to convince Crumble that she should get the job? Radio broadcaster, poet, and whirlwind performer Michael Rosen makes young audiences howl with...
A brand-new collaboration between this famous poet and exceptional illustrator Terri-Lee is applying for a new job. She arrives at the pet shop a...
A range of beautifully illustrated Michael Rosen's poems, including many of his classic works such as 'Down behind the dustbin'. The poems resonate with children's lives as they refer to everyday family life issues such as boredom on long car journeys. Many are appropriate for performance and can provide a framework for children's own writing.
Copper/ Band 12 books provide more complex plots and longer chapters that develop reading stamina.
Text type - Poetry book.
A feelings wheel on pages 30 and 31 encourages children to match phrases from the poems to feelings such as happy...
A range of beautifully illustrated Michael Rosen's poems, including many of his classic works such as 'Down behind the dustbin'. The poems resonate...
What's it like to be a writer, radio presenter and performer? Read all about Michael Rosen's life and find out what he was like as a boy, what he got up to at school and how he became a famous poet in this fascinating autobiography.
What's it like to be a writer, radio presenter and performer? Read all about Michael Rosen's life and find out what he was like as a boy, what he got ...
Inspiration for poetry can come from anywhere - a memory, an insight and even broccoli Former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen explains the inspiration behind a selection of his own quirky poems, highlighting that ideas can come from many different places.
Inspiration for poetry can come from anywhere - a memory, an insight and even broccoli Former Children's Laureate Michael Rosen explains the inspirat...
A collection of poems about school and friends - some familiar favourites and some brand new poems to excite young readers. Michael Rosen's humorous insights into children's lives make this a wonderfully accessible collection, with full colour illustrations by the irrepressible Korky Paul.
A collection of poems about school and friends - some familiar favourites and some brand new poems to excite young readers. Michael Rosen's humorous i...
Just how did Roald Dahl get into writing? Where did he get his ideas from? What ingredients in his life turned him into the kind of writer he was? Michael Rosen - poet, broadcaster and former Children's Laureate - comes up with some of the answers to these key questions in his lively biography of the world's nunmber one storyteller.
Just how did Roald Dahl get into writing? Where did he get his ideas from? What ingredients in his life turned him into the kind of writer he was? Mic...
