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
The way we speak is very different from the way we write - especially from the way we write continuous prose. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
At around 16, I became obsessed with James Joyces A Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man. I was absorbed by… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Writing can be a bit like unfolding something...Slowly, the writer reveals what's happening. But that's only half of what's going on. Writers… — 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 we are serious about enabling those who want to acquire what we have called standard English then first we should be… — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
Writing limericks gives us a playground, a release from these conventions. — Michael Rosen Copy Share Image
When someone dies, you have to do many things that mark it: telling other people, getting rid of the body, writing to… — 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
