My parents bookshelves were full of books that belonged to their lives in the Communist party. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
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
The wave of feeling that can overcome an adult when he or she opens a book that was read to them by… — 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
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
A visit to a bookshop will be a difficult one if you're looking for any picture book in print that is more… — 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
Anyone who was once a child should have at least one children's book in them. — 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
If you think you're living in an imperfect world, you can write a book about a better world and hope that enough… — 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
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
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
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
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
Books are low-tech, portable packages of the widest range of human experience, presented in a format which gives time to grasp complex… — 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
The first pages of any book I remember reading, in Pinner Wood primary school, were from The Beacon Readers: stories of Farmer… — 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
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
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
If you say to teachers, how can we, with the resources we've got here, develop a policy on reading books, then within… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
One of the reasons we invented continuous prose was to lay out an argument, piling points on top of each other, weighing… — 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 Image
Anyway, once children get to talk, they seem to be finding ways to joke. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
