To fetch! To play! To wag tails all day! Explore a pup’s life in Michael Rosen’s cuddly new rhyme. Just like any little person, the puppy in this story wants to live life to the max. He wants to dig holes, catch frisbees and race up the highest hills. But the big wide world can be a puzzling place. Sometimes it rains on your fur. Other times, you fall over and have to get up. Who can help the puppy make sense of things? Luckily a big dog is there to lend a paw, and help this little fellow stay on top…

A cuddly picture book rhyme by top talent Michael Rosen

Charming, expressive artwork by the brilliant Tony Ross

Shows how a wise dog gives reassurance to a puppy

Full of funny, heartfelt wisdom for life’s varied moments

Product Details

Catalogue number

53 in ROW Primary May 2019 and 512 in ROW Primary Summer 2019

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781407188577

Publisher

Scholastic

Date published

June 6th, 2019

Other details

32 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.