Books by Michael Rosen

Embarking on the long road to recovery, Michael was soon ready to start writing about his near-death experience. Combining stunning new prose poems by one of Britain's best loved poets and the moving coronavirus diaries of his nurses, doctors and wife Emma-Louise Williams, this is a beautiful book about love, life and the NHS.

A heartbreakingly honest account of a father's grief for his son from the illustrious pairing of two former Children's Laureates.

An original story by Michael Rosen, inspired by the Dickens classicOliver Twist. Shona's the new girl at school, where therules are pretty confusing. She keeps getting into trouble withoutrealizing!

From two of the biggest names in children's publishing, this is an inspiring guide to wordplay for young readers, their parents and teachers.I¿m ready for spaghettiWill you getti the spaghetti?Don¿t say, ¿Not yetti spaghetti!¿`cos I¿m all setti for spaghetti.Fizzing with rhythm, energy and laughter, the 30 poems in Ready for Spaghetti delight in the details of children's daily routines. "Up, up, uppity-up!", the first poem announces, while the artwork shows a child leaping out of bed, ready to begin their morning; "Hush and a hush, soft and low", chants the final poem, as children snuggle under their blankets after their day's adventures. Full of affectionate observations of young children, which are beautifully continued in Polly Dunbar's warm-hearted pictures, Michael Rosen's poems are ideal for reading aloud with toddlers ... and many grown-ups will soon know them by heart!

Michael Rosen is the former British Children's Laureate and the bestselling author of numerous classic books for children, including We're Going on a Bear Hunt, which has sold over 8 million copies worldwide.His YouTube channel, 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen', has over 600k subscribers and more than 100 million views and he has over 250k followers on Twitter.This is a graphic novel adaptation of one of his best-loved stories, originally published in 2005 with illustrations by Quentin Blake.

Beginning in 1939, young Solly in London exchanges letters with his teenaged cousin, Bernie, in Poland. While Solly is evacuated and adjusts to life in the English countryside, Bernie flees Warsaw, is sent to a Russian labour camp, and then joins the 'Anders Army' and fight the Axis powers. A powerful story of the endurance of family bonds.

Rigatoni is a pasta cat. He loves pasta, any kind of pasta: spaghetti, penne, fusilli, with pesto, in soup, in lasagne, any whichever way his owners, Ruth and Tina, will serve it.Then one day Ruth and Tina go away and leave George in charge. And the pasta is replaced with yucky cat food. Can Rigatoni find someone who understands what he really wants to eat?

Gloriously anarchic snapshot of family life. Part of Barrington Stoke's picture book range for all the family, with easy-read font.

A highly topical look at the role of art and the importance of creativity in our lives and the wider world

From Children¿s Laureates Michael Rosen and Chris Riddell, the bestselling team behind A Great Big Cuddle, comes a first book of nursery rhymes.Flying pigs, wobbling plates of jelly and a giant who trembles whenever he meets a mouse: welcome to the topsy-turvy world of nursery rhymes. Inspired by his lifelong fascination with these peculiar poems, Michael Rosen has placed familiar playground songs alongside forgotten gems for a seminal new collection. Brought to vivid life by Chris Riddell¿s magnificent pictures, expect familiar faces, from little Jumping Joan to Miss Mary Mack ¿ but also plenty of surprises¿ With forty rhymes to choose from, this book is sure to prove a bedtime favourite."Huggable and exuberant ¿ makes you want to smile and stomp to the rhythm." ¿ The Sunday Times on A Great Big Cuddle

A rollicking romp filled with thrills, chills and laughter - Wolfman has escaped! Part of Barrington Stoke's picture book range for all the family, with easy-read font.

Two super-smart kids triumph in these perfectly packaged fairy tales with a twist from multi-award-winning and bestselling author Michael Rosen!

Michael Rosen writes:"In 1997 I completed a Ph.D. on the subject of authoring a piece of children's literature - a book of poems that was eventually published as 'You Wait Till I'm Older Than You' (Puffin). In the thesis I tried to put to one side mystical and Romantic ideas around creating poetry and instead, locate the whole process in reality. This is in defiance of a very different idea which refuses or defers reality, arguing that all that we know is what we say and write. So I first wanted to make the argument that reality does indeed exist and I (along with all other human beings) have a specific place in it. There is also the matter of how we perceive and produce texts, through what has come to be known as 'intertextuality', along with the question of how we integrate audience to what and how we write. I sought to bring together these different processes and then by using them as critical tools, set about examining how I came to write a group of poems. Going through all this, led me to the conclusion that I had nudged myself towards a Marxist theory of authorship and that I had demonstrated its method in such a way that others could adopt it, adapt it and use it."

A highly topical look at how politics affects everyone in society, and has an impact on our daily lives

A new collection of poems for grown-ups from the 2007-to-2009 Children's Laureate. The absurdities of everyday life, the details of food and objects and the tyranny of austerity and prejudice are taken on as subjects.

When a young puppy needs reassurance, a wise dog is there to offer canine tips for living life to the fullest. Crafted by two children's book legends, this touching, heartfelt picture book is perfect for celebrating any of life's big moments!