Michael Rosen

Respect is fatal, isn't it?

— Michael Rosen

There's no one right way to teach poetry in schools.

— Michael Rosen

I think the best learning takes place when you create an atmosphere of curiosity and excitement.

— Michael Rosen

The parents who read with their children and fill their houses with books produce the highest achievers.

— Michael Rosen

Living with a dog is one way to retain something of a child's spirit.

— Michael Rosen

When it comes to the UK, our problem is that weve never decolonised.

— Michael Rosen

Anyway, once children get to talk, they seem to be finding ways to joke.

— Michael Rosen

Death is shot through with the details and colours of the lives that were lived.

— Michael Rosen

My parents bookshelves were full of books that belonged to their lives in the Communist party.

— Michael Rosen

Change in language is hard to capture and when it's visible or audible; it is also hard for some to accept.

— Michael Rosen

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

If you want to discover how to make children laugh - and I truly believe all adults should, because children need laughter…

— Michael Rosen

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

What happens on the ground is that schools have been required to follow a literacy matrix - yes, some schools junked it…

— Michael Rosen

When I was about 15 - that would be some 60 years ago - I remember my father, a secondary school teacher,…

— Michael Rosen

The world is becoming increasingly changeable and unpredictable, so why should education make the knowledge being passed on so finite and certain;…

— Michael Rosen

Poetry fills clubs, halls and venues. Poets and poems can talk to the deepest feelings and to the silliest. It can be…

— Michael Rosen

The brothers Grimm were indeed once read by millions of people - quite often the first reading materials given to people in…

— Michael Rosen

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

In most countries, property law means that people can take possession of manuscripts and, in some circumstances, a lone copy of a…

— Michael Rosen

A society based on a market economy which decided that people should only be allowed to take up senior positions in business,…

— Michael Rosen

When someone dies, you have to do many things that mark it: telling other people, getting rid of the body, writing to…

— Michael Rosen

Academies can also flog off land and buildings, if the much weakened local authorities agree. Serious money can be made, management salaries…

— Michael Rosen

A very important part of writing for children is appearing at book festivals, and in libraries and schools. An important part of…

— Michael Rosen

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

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

Anyone who was once a child should have at least one children's book in them.

— Michael Rosen

Writing limericks gives us a playground, a release from these conventions.

— Michael Rosen

In the mid-1970s I worked at Vauxhall Manor school, a girls comprehensive in south London.

— Michael Rosen

My own view is that the arts are neither superior nor inferior to anything else that goes on in schools.

— Michael Rosen

You pass a poem to the audience through the words as embodied literally by the rest of your human form. And the…

— Michael Rosen

There should be room in education for schooling to be more responsive to events, more focused on varying interpretations and more able…

— Michael Rosen

The wave of feeling that can overcome an adult when he or she opens a book that was read to them by…

— Michael Rosen

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

Across the many years I've been involved with arts education, I have seen countless projects, schemes, partnerships and programmes, on and off…

— Michael Rosen

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

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

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

Sometimes I don't want to talk about it. Not to anyone. No one. No one at all. I just want to think…

— Michael Rosen

The way we speak is very different from the way we write - especially from the way we write continuous prose.

— Michael Rosen