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Dolphin featured author - Michael Rosen

See all Michael's work here...

From 2007 Michael Rosen was the Children's Laureate.

 

The role of the laureate is awarded to a children's writer or illustrator to celebrate their fantastic work with children's books.  In June 2007 the award was given to Michael Rosen.

 

Michael has written over 140 books and is maybe most famous for his slightly zany

and funny collections of poems and verse, such as Quick Let's Get Out of Here! and You Can't Catch Me.

 

Plus, of course there are the picture books like Burping Bertha and Mustard Custard and most famous of all, We're Going on a Bear Hunt.

 

 

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 thyroid) from which Rosen suffered for ten years.

A moving collection...

Still the classic work...

'A man tells about all the emotions that accompany his sadness over the death of his son, and how he tries to cope'.

We're going on a bear hunt! Through the long wavy grass, the thick oozy mud and the swirling, whirling snowstorm - will we find a bear today?

 

Children will love the book and the animated version of this adventurous tale from the acclaimed King Rollo Films - accompanied by specially composed music and narrated by Emilia Fox and Kevin Whatley - and following all the action in the classic picture book, which won the Smarties Book Prize and was Highly Commended for the Kate Greenaway Medal.

Michael Rosen was born in Harrow, London. The family background is Jewish, "from the Jewish East End tradition" as Rosen puts it. Rosen's father Harold (1919–2008) was born in Brockton, Massachusetts, in the United States to Communist parents and settled in the East End of London at the age of two, when his mother returned to the country of her birth.

 

Michael's mother, Connie was a primary school teacher before becoming a training college lecturer; she also broadcast for the BBC.

 

Producing a programme featuring poetry, she persuaded her son to write for it, and used some of the material he submitted.

 

Michael says of his background as a poet and writer...


... I went to [Middlesex Hospital] Medical School, started on the first part of a medical training, jacked it in and went on to do a degree in English at Oxford University. I then worked for the BBC until they chucked me out and I have been a freelance writer, broadcaster, lecturer, performer ever since – that's to say since 1972. Most of my books have been for children, but that's not how I started out. ... Sometime around the age of twelve and thirteen I began to get a sense that I liked writing, liked trying out different kinds of writing, I tried writing satirical poems about people I knew'.

 

Narrative: Wikipedia

Michael gives us 'Chocolate Cake'

 

Funny, warm and brilliant as always.

You can see more films on Michael's own web site here.