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Macbeth United Award-winning author/illustrator

by Michael Rosen (author) and Tony Ross (illustrator) (UK edition)

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Suitable for 8 - 14 years

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Product description

Foul is fair in Macbeth’s bid to be team captain! Witness one of Shakespeare’s greatest plays retold as never before by the mighty creative team of Michael Rosen and Tony Ross. Macbeth is twelve, a promising striker on the Shotfield football team with a burning desire to become team captain. His ruthless mum pushes him to do whatever it takes to shove the other players aside and get himself noticed by the football scouts. So when it comes to the big game, fair is foul and fouls are fair. But will Macbeth’s dirty tricks end in on-pitch tragedy?

A punchy tale of football, treachery and power games

Retells Shakespeare’s play in a dynamic modern style

A mix of football action, ghosts and political drama

Michael Rosen is a true legend of children’s writing

Product Details

Catalogue number

352 in ROW Primary Summer 2020 and 293 in ROW Primary May 2020

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781407188584

Publisher

Scholastic

Date published

September 3rd, 2020

Other details

288 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Author/Illustrator

Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen was born into a London Jewish family, the son of two distinguished educators – Connie and Harold Rosen. Michael’s childhood was rich in books, stories and conversation.

Michael attended Middlesex Hospital Medical School for a year but transferred to Wadham College, Oxford to study English Literature. At Oxford, he started to realise his ambition of acting (as well as writing and directing). Michael still says that if he wasn’t a poet, he’d like to be an actor. Anyone who has seen him in performance knows that he already is!

The narrowness of his course of study proved a source of dissatisfaction and Michael began looking outside his recommended reading to contemporary working, class ballads. He retains a passion for street rhymes, popular songs and folk stories.

Michael Rosen has been writing poetry since the age of 18. His first collection, Mind Your Own Business, was published in 1974. Although it was not planned as a collection for children, it appeared on Andre Deutsch’s children’s list. This, says Michael, was a turning point – “Suddenly it all fused: the writing, the performing, the popular audience. It was just incredibly exhilarating.”

He quickly made a name for himself with his collections of humorous verse and picture books for children. He is described as one of the most significant figures in contemporary children’s poetry, drawing closely on his own childhood experiences, and ‘telling it as it was’ in the ordinary language children actually use.

Michael is now a poet, author and broadcaster, and was Children’s Laureate from 2007-2009.

Tony Ross

Multi-award-winning Tony Ross has become one of the best-known creators of original and traditional picture books and his work has been published all over the world. As well as his own books, he has illustrated books for authors such as Roald Dahl, Paula Danziger and Michael Palin.