I came from a home full of the sounds of my parents performing poems or playing recordings of Robert Graves, WB Yeats… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
My parents bookshelves were full of books that belonged to their lives in the Communist party. — 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
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
I was very lucky to have been brought up in a household where my older brother and my father read out loud… — 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
When I was about 15 - that would be some 60 years ago - I remember my father, a secondary school teacher,… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
I was the youngest, and there was my mother, my father and my brother. They each had their own way of turning… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
The word 'family' has always posed great difficulties. Until recently, high death rates for women in labour meant many stepmothers and, according… — 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
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
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
My father was adept at making up limericks about place names we encountered on holidays or others using the names of new… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
It seems that 17% of men born since 1970 are step-fathers. Of course it is not new: my father's cousin, nearly 96,… — 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
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
