Bøker av Michael Rosen

Rigatoni is a pasta cat. He loves pasta, any kind of pasta: spaghetti, penne, fusilli, with pesto, in soup, in lasagne, any whichever way his owners, Ruth and Tina, will serve it.Then one day Ruth and Tina go away and leave George in charge. And the pasta is replaced with yucky cat food. Can Rigatoni find someone who understands what he really wants to eat?

Michael Rosen shows how the redemptive hope of religion became the redemptive hope of historical progress. This was the heart of German Idealism: purpose lay not in God's judgment but in worldly projects; freedom required not being subject to arbitrary authority, human or divine. Yet purpose and freedom never shed their theistic structure.

Gloriously anarchic snapshot of family life. Part of Barrington Stoke's picture book range for all the family, with easy-read font.

A highly topical look at the role of art and the importance of creativity in our lives and the wider world

From Children¿s Laureates Michael Rosen and Chris Riddell, the bestselling team behind A Great Big Cuddle, comes a first book of nursery rhymes.Flying pigs, wobbling plates of jelly and a giant who trembles whenever he meets a mouse: welcome to the topsy-turvy world of nursery rhymes. Inspired by his lifelong fascination with these peculiar poems, Michael Rosen has placed familiar playground songs alongside forgotten gems for a seminal new collection. Brought to vivid life by Chris Riddell¿s magnificent pictures, expect familiar faces, from little Jumping Joan to Miss Mary Mack ¿ but also plenty of surprises¿ With forty rhymes to choose from, this book is sure to prove a bedtime favourite."Huggable and exuberant ¿ makes you want to smile and stomp to the rhythm." ¿ The Sunday Times on A Great Big Cuddle

A rollicking romp filled with thrills, chills and laughter - Wolfman has escaped! Part of Barrington Stoke's picture book range for all the family, with easy-read font.

Two super-smart kids triumph in these perfectly packaged fairy tales with a twist from multi-award-winning and bestselling author Michael Rosen!

Michael Rosen writes:"In 1997 I completed a Ph.D. on the subject of authoring a piece of children's literature - a book of poems that was eventually published as 'You Wait Till I'm Older Than You' (Puffin). In the thesis I tried to put to one side mystical and Romantic ideas around creating poetry and instead, locate the whole process in reality. This is in defiance of a very different idea which refuses or defers reality, arguing that all that we know is what we say and write. So I first wanted to make the argument that reality does indeed exist and I (along with all other human beings) have a specific place in it. There is also the matter of how we perceive and produce texts, through what has come to be known as 'intertextuality', along with the question of how we integrate audience to what and how we write. I sought to bring together these different processes and then by using them as critical tools, set about examining how I came to write a group of poems. Going through all this, led me to the conclusion that I had nudged myself towards a Marxist theory of authorship and that I had demonstrated its method in such a way that others could adopt it, adapt it and use it."

A highly topical look at how politics affects everyone in society, and has an impact on our daily lives

A highly topical look at how our decisions about what is right and wrong play out on an individual, local, national and global scale

A new collection of poems for grown-ups from the 2007-to-2009 Children's Laureate. The absurdities of everyday life, the details of food and objects and the tyranny of austerity and prejudice are taken on as subjects.

A highly topical look at the current refugee crisis, encouraging readers to think for themselves about the issues involved.

Christmas is coming, and what Leo wants more than anything in the world is a pet hamster. And guess what? He gets one on Christmas morning! Leo names his new pet Hampstead, after an autocorrect mistake on his wishlist. Everything is great, that is, until Leo realises that Hampstead is down in the dumps. What can Leo do to cheer Hampstead up?

Poetry for children at its very silliest!Let your imagination run riot and laughter fill your belly as you explore traditional poems, rhymes with a twist, and subversive playground favourites in this playful treasure chest of verse.

The second uproarious adventure from the comic pairing of Michael Rosen and Neal Layton sees Malcolm and the peculiar Uncle Gobb go to America, each with a cunning plan...