Dolphin featured author - Michael Rosen
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From June 2007 Michael Rosen is the Children's Laureate.
The next two years look like being a lot of fun and it's great to have Michael in the seat for Children's Laureate.
The role of the laureate is awarded to a children's writer or illustrator to celebrate their fantastic work with children'snbooks. 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.
There have only been four children's laureates before...
Quentin Blake, Anne Fine, Michael Morpurgo and Jacqueline Wilson. So Michael Rosen's appointment is a special plus for children's poetry.
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.
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