Quick, Let's Get Out of Here Award-winning author/illustrator

The yucky things your brother does. The annoying things your parents say. The funny things you feel. Michael Rosen knows all about YOU – and he’s written these poems about it! Family fun. Sibling squabbles. Washing up. Playing tricks. Homework. Eating cake. Changing a nappy (ugh)! All those boring, ordinary bits of daily life made NOT AT ALL boring or ordinary in zany laugh-out-loud poems. Quick – get into this book!

A classic book of funny rhymes by Michael Rosen

With hilarious illustrations by Quentin Blake

Everyday topics that every kid can relate to

Inspires children to enjoy poetry and writing

“Michael Rosen is a poet with a superb ear for the rhythms of language.” Guardian

“One of our most popular writers – the champion for every bored, overdrilled, tested-to-tears pupil in the land.” The Times

Product Details

Catalogue number

5686 in Rewards Catalogue 2019/20

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9780141362977

Publisher

Puffin

Date published

October 1st, 2015

Other details

192 pages

Condition

New

UK edition

Available in these packs

Pie Corbett's Poetry Spine: Year 3 Pack x 4

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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.