I think of children's books as not so much for children, but as the filling that goes between the child world and… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Anyway, once children get to talk, they seem to be finding ways to joke. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
We've all been children, we all know a parent or parent-figure. This makes us all potential writers of children's books. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Living with a dog is one way to retain something of a child's spirit. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
The parents who read with their children and fill their houses with books produce the highest achievers. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Anxiety about the possibility that children will be corrupted if they hear rude words has been around for a long time. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Anyone who was once a child should have at least one children's book in them. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
In his 70s, when I was in my 40s, my father still read me the stories he wrote about his childhood. His… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
We have an almost complete comprehensive primary school system in England. Surely, if grammar schools are some kind of answer to making… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
A very important part of writing for children is appearing at book festivals, and in libraries and schools. An important part of… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Yes, it's possible to play computer games on your own and many do. But I also see children playing them in pairs… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
What's difficult to do in books for children is to create funny incidents. Funny images, funny language and any kind of taboo-breaking… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
If schools don't make books important then children who come from homes with no books, and who don't visit libraries, will never… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
If you want to discover how to make children laugh - and I truly believe all adults should, because children need laughter… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
The whole of Sheffield seems to be crazy about books. There are festivals and their own book awards, and their own children's… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I've seen after-school clubs where parents, teachers and children have got together to write books. They were in a mix of languages;… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Only when all children are in a book-loving environment will they achieve literacy, yes, but a lot more: a confidence in handling… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Reading for pleasure can easily sound like some kind of wishy-washy, soft option, while instructional stuff like learning-to-read through 'synthetic phonics' and… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
On the rare occasions that men talk to each other about these things, we discover that step-fathering a child whose father has… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Whether were parents, carers, teachers or anyone working with young children, we know that children move easily and often between free play… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
What happens on the ground is that schools have been required to follow a literacy matrix - yes, some schools junked it… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Lists, and lists of lists, invite many questions and one that crops up here is: what makes a children's book last? When… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Books for children get into schools. Committed teachers use books like mine alongside films, non-fiction and fiction to help children investigate and… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
As I began to perform - songs, poems, sketches or conjuring tricks - I began to learn what children run with and… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
The world of children's books is a very friendly, decent place to be. It's full of people who are desperate to enlighten,… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
The main problem with people not reading to their children is the lack of a bridge between schools and families, so that… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Any child who reads widely, often and for pleasure will inevitably make comparisons between what they're reading, why they're reading and how… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Politicians of all kinds think there's some running in talking tough about children's reading. They think that if they announce to the… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Any encounter, any situation in which there was a confrontation between us as children and our own parents, or teachers, when we… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
My main motive for going into children's literature was to recreate the helpless giggling that infected me in my childhood. In some… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I understand that more and more children under the age of 10 go to bed without having something read to them or… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Performance poetry is not one genre. Some chant, sing and dance. Some stand rooted to the spot and stare. Some chat their way in… — Michael Rosen Copy Share
When I was about 15 - that would be some 60 years ago - I remember my father, a secondary school teacher, was always… — Michael Rosen Copy Share
One of the many falsities of fiction that we accept quite happily is the non-ageing of characters as they appear across series and sequels. — Michael Rosen Copy Share
Commitment is not a barrier to freedom. Commitment is the *exercise* of freedom, the act of making a choice or decision and meaning it.… — Michael Rosen Copy Share
What happens on the ground is that schools have been required to follow a literacy matrix - yes, some schools junked it - but… — Michael Rosen Copy Share
Yes, it's possible to play computer games on your own and many do. But I also see children playing them in pairs and fours… — Michael Rosen Copy Share
You can give up the best years of your life knowing that no matter what you do or how you do it, your step-child… — Michael Rosen Copy Share
We have an almost complete comprehensive primary school system in England. Surely, if grammar schools are some kind of answer to making education better… — Michael Rosen Copy Share
Where the government has got it seriously wrong is to imagine that poetry is about right and wrong answers, that poetry has testable outcomes.… — Michael Rosen Copy Share
Its social: in doing the arts we find out what we need from each other. But its also about survival - surviving as individuals,… — Michael Rosen Copy Share
Cricket is great for families, so long as you don't play by the proper rules and adapt it so the youngest can be helped… — Michael Rosen Copy Share
The brothers Grimm were indeed once read by millions of people - quite often the first reading materials given to people in the 1950s… — Michael Rosen Copy Share
The world of children's books is a very friendly, decent place to be. It's full of people who are desperate to enlighten, interest and… — Michael Rosen Copy Share
The main problem with people not reading to their children is the lack of a bridge between schools and families, so that children don't… — Michael Rosen Copy Share
