Michael Rosen

Michael Rosen (born May 7, 1946) is an English poet and children's novelist. He was the UK Children's Laureate until 2009.

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• Anyone who was once a child should have at least one children's book in them.
  • Macca the paperback writer, Guardian, (22 March 2005)[1]

• Respect is fatal, isn't it?
  • Talking Shop, BBC News, (12 June 2007) link

Carrying the Elephant

• He wanted to make a mirror. Glass, mercury and a wooden frame- the perfect mirror. But he was no good at it. So he went to the people he knew and asked them for a mirror. All they could give him were bits of old mirror. He took these home, stuck them on a board and hung it up. It's a mirror.
  • Foreword

• "dear joe, your wild noisy huge brother is dead.
  I couldn't do what my parents did:
  bring two boys, four years apart through the maze."

• It's nice of you to say you'll always remember him. You won't.

• "People are good," he said. "They'll all
  be good to you. Except one."

• "I mucked about with his hair. His shoes
  were where he left them. His shoes are where he
  left them."

• "You ask me how it's possible for me to carry on. I wonder
  if I look like someone who looks like
  it's possible to carry on."

• "Bloody music. I hate the way it infiltrates."

• "It didn't work out the way it's supposed to."

Sad Book

• "Sometimes because I'm sad I do bad things.
  I can't tell you what they are.
  They are too bad. And it's not fair on the cat."

• Sad is anywhere. It comes along and finds you.

• There must be candles.