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Michael Rosen and Tony Ross Pack x 4Enlarge cover

Suitable for 5 - 8 years

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What happens when two legends of children’s fiction team up in a pack of funny books? Farting goldfish. Burping contests. Brainy bees. Does that sound daft enough for you? On every page of these tales, your ribs will be tickled by legendary laughter hero Michael Rosen, the guy who perfected nonsense verse. But that’s not all: the pictures are really ridiculous too! This goes beyond reading for pleasure: it’s reading for total hilarity. Forget sense – it’s mostly nonsense, but your sense of humour will love it!

  • Four funny favourites by a superstar dream team
  • Perfect for young readers who love a good laugh
  • A great way to motivate and enthuse kids to read
  • Michael Rosen is a former Children’s Laureate
  • He is best-known for We’re Going on a Bear Hunt
  • Tony Ross is a world-famous children’s illustrator
  • He did pictures for Horrid Henry and Dr Xargle

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Catalogue number

5840 in Schools Catalogue 2020/21

Format

Paperback

Date published

March 1st, 2018

Condition

New

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Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen was born into a London Jewish family, the son of two distinguished educators – Connie and Harold Rosen. Michael’s childhood was rich in books, stories and conversation.

Michael attended Middlesex Hospital Medical School for a year but transferred to Wadham College, Oxford to study English Literature. At Oxford, he started to realise his ambition of acting (as well as writing and directing). Michael still says that if he wasn’t a poet, he’d like to be an actor. Anyone who has seen him in performance knows that he already is!

The narrowness of his course of study proved a source of dissatisfaction and Michael began looking outside his recommended reading to contemporary working, class ballads. He retains a passion for street rhymes, popular songs and folk stories.

Michael Rosen has been writing poetry since the age of 18. His first collection, Mind Your Own Business, was published in 1974. Although it was not planned as a collection for children, it appeared on Andre Deutsch’s children’s list. This, says Michael, was a turning point – “Suddenly it all fused: the writing, the performing, the popular audience. It was just incredibly exhilarating.”

He quickly made a name for himself with his collections of humorous verse and picture books for children. He is described as one of the most significant figures in contemporary children’s poetry, drawing closely on his own childhood experiences, and ‘telling it as it was’ in the ordinary language children actually use.

Michael is now a poet, author and broadcaster, and was Children’s Laureate from 2007-2009.

Tony Ross

Multi-award-winning Tony Ross has become one of the best-known creators of original and traditional picture books and his work has been published all over the world. As well as his own books, he has illustrated books for authors such as Roald Dahl, Paula Danziger and Michael Palin.

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